Accendo Cellars

Accendo Cellars is: the Araujo Familyโ€™s wine brand, made by two generations working together with their longstanding team to honor theย winemaking and family heritage of Napa Valley.

TO ILLUMINATE:ย  Shine a light on whatโ€™s behind the bottle โ€“ great vineyards, enlightened and sustainable farming, artisanal winemaking and the art of the blend. Wines that build on what came before, generation to generation.

TO INSPIRE:ย  Produce and promote classically styled wines that express their terroir with balance, purity and nobility; revisit the iconic Napa Valley Cabernetsย of the 1950s โ€“ 1970s, sourced from multiple vineyards and showing perfectly 50 โ€“ 70 years later. Great wines donโ€™t answer all the questions at the first sip. Great wines inspire a dialog about what makes them great

TO AROUSE: Continue the conversation about what makes a great wine great, a conversation that burns on, generation after generation; participate in the passion of our efforts to produce singular wines and sustain our industry, our environment and our community.

Accendo sustains shared appreciation for the great wines and all those who make and drink them with us in Napa Valley and beyond.

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meet the team

Jaime Araujo | Partner

As a partner in Accendo Cellars, Jaime brings a wealth of experience in marketing fine wine worldwide. Before joining the family business, she founded Terravina, an international marketing, communications and strategic solutions company for the wine industry based in Paris. She also spent three years working in marketing for the wine and spirits division of LVMH.

Greg Araujo | Partner

Gregโ€™s path was unconventional. He is perhaps the one who was the most clearly predestined for the role, but the one who also resisted the longest. The familyโ€™s arrival in Napa ignited Gregโ€™s interest in food and gastronomy, and in 1995, fresh out of college, he became the first American to study at the prestigious Luis Irizar cooking school in San Sebastian, Spain.

Franรงoise Peschon | Winemaker

Franรงoise has worked alongside Daphne and Bart Araujo since 1993 when they were proprietors of the Eisele Vineyard. Today at Accendo Cellars, she oversees the winemaking for the Sauvignon Blancย and consults with Nigel Kinsman on the Cabernet.

Nigel Kinsman | Winemaker

Nigel Kinsman began working with the Araujo family in 2010 when he joined the team as winemaker at Araujo Estate Wines. A decade later, he now makes the familyโ€™s Cabernet Sauvignon for Accendo Cellars.

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