sentences:  In 1986, he launched an unsuccessful bid for California State Controller.In 1986 and 1987, He served as a member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations in the Reagan Administration.Sebastiani soon returned to Sonoma to run his family's wine business, Sebastiani Vineyards, where he took production from little more than 200,000 cases to just shy of 8 million in his 15 years at the helm.