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Chateau Lane Winery is located at 100 Rapp Lane in Napa. For those story of how Frank and his brothers embarked upon their journey to
more familiar with Napa and its various appellations, the winery is become winemakers.
located in the Southeastern portion of Napa known as Coombsville. Many of you are actually very familiar with Frank, his brothers and
This area is named after Nathan Coombs who also founded Napa, but his late father who was also named Frank. Frank Sr. created the NY
that story is for another time. To be honest, I had not spent much time Style Italian Sausage Company back in 1951 in Palo Alto, and now
in the Coombsville area. In fact, this was the first winery I had actually in Sunnyvale, California. The sausages can be found in most grocery
visited there. Chateau Lane Winery is not one that you would stumble stores and Costcos here in the Bay Area and it is actually my personal
upon on a typical Sunday drive in the Napa Valley. I am not sure you sausage of choice when I go shopping. As Frank Sr. was becoming the
would even stumble upon it as you drove around Napa on any given Abe Froman of the San Francisco Bay Area, the boys were also getting
day of the week! And that is what they prefer. It is a reservation-only their first taste of being in business for themselves.
winery but it definitely is worth the time to venture off the beaten In the early 70’s Frank Sr. got a call from one of his relatives to whom
paths of Highway 29 and the Silverado Trail. he had lent some money for a restaurant, of which at one time he
Our arrival was expected—as should be yours since it is reservations
only. We were very well greeted by Trish who is, as she describes it,
Frank’s work wife. We started out on their patio, which overlooks the
vineyards and the southern end of the Napa Valley Country Club.
There we got a chance to enjoy some of their wine and listened to the
