Accendo Cellars

We have always said our best wine has yet to be made.

This was our philosophy as the proprietors of Araujo Estate and stewards of the historic Eisele Vineyard, and it is our guiding principle today with Accendo Cellars, the Napa Valley winegrowing venture we founded in 2013. Inspired by the revolutionary Napa Valley wines of the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s, Accendo pays homage to an earlier era and marks a beginning of a promising new paradigm: to...

When you live and farm in Napa Valley, you gain a respect for forces that are more powerful than you.

The weather and climate, geology and soils, slope and aspect, the way the sun traverses a vineyard through the course of a day, a season, a year. All of these influences comprise what we know as terroir. Working with the Eisele Vineyard for over twenty years showed us the power of terroir. We are deeply grateful for these lessons in how a v...

People are fundamental to what we are creating.

At Accendo, we are privileged and grateful to be working with many of the same small team members that helped us build Araujo Estate. The collective knowledge and experience of our collaborators Nigel Kinsman and Françoise Peschon, winemakers; Michel Rolland, consulting enologist; Steve Matthiasson, viticulturist - are integral to our winegrowing success. The talent and commitment of each and ...