Freemark Abbey traces to 1886, when Josephine Tychson took over her family's St. Helena property after her husband John's death and built the original redwood winery herself — becoming the first woman in California to oversee a winery's construction. She sold in 1898 to Antonio Forni, who renamed it Lombarda Cellars and raised the stone building that still stands; Prohibition shuttered it for two decades until 1939, when California businessmen Charles Freeman, Marquand Foster and Albert "Abbey" Ahern bought the property and combined their names to form Freemark Abbey. A group of seven Napa Valley grape growers purchased it in 1967, and their winemaking earned it the nickname "University of Freemark" for training a run of notable winemakers. Freemark Abbey remains the only winery to have both a red and white wine included in the 1976 Judgment of Paris, and its Bosché and Sycamore Cabernets, both from the Rutherford Bench, were among the first vineyard-designate wines made in California. The 1906 stone cellar underwent a full restoration in 2016.