Whither Napa Valley Cabernet, Part VIII: Freemark Abbey Vineyards and Mount Veeder Winery

Here are two venerable producers in this series to which I have not posted in eight months, so I apologize. I chose to deal with these wineries together because they are what I think of as Old School Napa Valley and because they have each undergone many changes in the cycles of their existence.

Freemark Abbey, which occupies a site east of Hwy 29 between…