(VinePair) - Frank Family Vineyards isn’t the most recognizable of Napa Valley’s sparkling wineproducers. Mumm, Schramsberg, and Domaine Chandon are all better known. Nor is it the longest, continuously operating winery in the valley — that honor goes to Beringer Vineyards, founded in 1875.

No, Frank Family Vineyards isn’t the oldest or the best known; but since it began producing sparkling wines in 1958, it has earned a distinction of its own as the longest, continuously operating bubbly maker in all of Napa.

Its history mirrors that of 20th-century America. These grounds tell the story of those who sidestepped Prohibition, a political prisoner who fled Nazi Germany, and the boom and bust of Napa’s wine market. Now, it’s under the careful stewardship of those who inherit such a legacy.