Accendo is the 10-year-old project of the renowned Araujo family. For over two decades, this family was intimately tied to the rise of the Eisele Vineyard – a vineyard with a history stretching back to the 1880s that produced one of the state’s first single-vineyard Cabernet Sauvignons in 1971 when it was bottled by Ridge Vineyards. (Elaine Chukan Brown covers this history in more detail here.)
The Araujos, who bought Eisele...
