A new winery building was constructed on the property in 1972 and then remodeled in 2006. The contemporary, two-story facility includes a club-like second floor that is home to the Freemark Abbey Partner’s Lounge. Here, members of the winery’s two clubs, Partner’s Cellar and Josephine’s Cellar, can gather to taste wines only available through those memberships and also enjoy seasonal bites from our culinary team.

The Partner’s Lounge includes an exterior patio for al fresco events and tastings, while the building is flanked by the beautifully landscaped Upper and Lower Lawns. All three spaces were designed for visitors to taste Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignons and other Freemark wines in inspiring outdoor venues. In Napa Valley, sometimes wines are just better in open-air settings!

Two decades earlier, the original partners who combined their names to form “Freemark Abbey”—Charles Freeman, Mark Foster, and Abbey Ahern—were adamant in the belief that hospitality was a path to success as a St. Helena winery. Back in the days of dirt roads and as many fruit orchards as vineyards in the valley, they constructed a “sampling room” in 1949. The quaint but functional annex to the original stone winery was a predecessor to the ubiquitous tasting rooms that help define modern Napa Valley hospitality.

The 1972 addition served as a tasting room for much of that decade. Nowadays, the Partner’s Lounge is often full of enthusiastic tasters and Freemark staff who host them for the day. It’s an added benefit to being a Partners’ or Josephine’s Cellar club member.