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Frank Family Vineyards

Sub-AVA · Calistoga

Further reading: Producer's own site

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Editorial profile

Frank Family Vineyards occupies the historic Larkmead Winery building in Calistoga, first constructed in 1884 and later home to Hanns Kornell's champenoise-method sparkling wine label from 1958. Former Disney Studios president Rich Frank acquired the property in 1992 and opened it to the public in 1993.

The winery still makes sparkling wines by the traditional méthode champenoise (Blanc de Blancs, Brut Rosé, Rouge, Lady Edythe Reserve Brut) alongside a still-wine range built on Cabernet Sauvignon from Rutherford, Calistoga and broader Napa Valley fruit, Carneros Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, and Zinfandel from Chiles Valley and Napa Valley (including a Zinfandel-based Port). Winston Hill, a Cabernet Sauvignon-led Bordeaux blend from the winery's own hillside vineyard above the Napa Valley floor in Rutherford, is the flagship; Patriarch, a Cabernet Sauvignon from the same vineyard, was released in 2015 in tribute to Rich Frank's father, Hy Frank.

Facts read from frankfamilyvineyards.com

What's on file

Address

1091 LARKMEAD LN

Where it's registered

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  • Principal1091 LARKMEAD LN, CALISTOGA

The ground it sits on

Sub-AVA · Calistoga

6.1

pH, 1:1 water

15.0cm

, whole profile

132cm

to

Well drained

, dominant condition

Distribution across 44 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar

6.1
6.3%
21.2%
available water
15.0cm
depth to restriction
132cm

Dominant

  • 33.9%
  • 21.9%
  • 12.9%
  • 10.5%
  • 3.6%

44 map units · soil described over 97.5% of the region’s area · 9.8% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 54% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.

Wines

20 of 20 wines link to the page they were read from. The list is what a producer publishes about itself, one citation at a time — it is not a catalog, and a wine missing from it is uncurated rather than unmade.