2013 Cabernet Sauvignon
United States
Napa
Red
78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Cabernet Franc (2022 vintage)
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2013
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Bart and Daphne Araujo did not waste much time getting back in the game after their sale of Araujo Estate (now Eisele Vineyard). The Araujos were able to secure fruit from several top sources and rebuild their team in short order, while purchasing two small parcels of land in northern Oakville they call Rancho Pequeno. Bart Araujo told me after years of making a single vineyard Cabernet, he wanted to make a wine that blended fruit from different sources in more of an old-school style. The 2013 Cabernet is clearly a wine of transition, but the 2014 gives a clearer idea of where these wines are going stylistically. Françoise Peschon is the winemaker and Michel Rolland consults. If that weren't enough, the Araujos have also opened a new custom crush facility, Wheeler Farms, which is designed to service the needs of a small number of premium wineries.
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2022
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Accendo is a bit of an outlier in Napa Valley in that the goal is to blend fruit from several sites to make a single wine. That philosophy has worked beautifully here in many vintages, including 2022. After a long and distinguished career, Daphne and Bart Araujo recently transferred ownership of Accendo to their children Jaime and Greg. The winemaking team led by Nigel Kinsman remains unchanged.
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2021
2027 - 2041
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There was quite a bit of news at Accendo when I visited the winery this past fall. Ten years after founding Accendo, Bart and Daphne Araujo have stepped down from the winery and passed the baton to their children, Greg and Jaime. Bart and Daphne Araujo will continue to run their J.H. Wheeler label and Wheeler Farms, their state-of-the-art custom crush facility. The concept at Accendo is based on wines blended from many sites across the valley, in the tradition of many old-school Napa Valley Cabernets that were made before the current focus on vineyard designates. Winemaker Nigel Kinsman turned out a pair of exquisite 2021s.
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2021
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Bart and Daphne Araujo show no signs of slowing down, if anything they appear to be moving faster than ever. Over the last few years, the Araujos have continued to upgrade the sites that go into their multi-vineyard Accendo Cabernet Sauvignon. I tasted the 2021 from various unblended components. I have to say, it is a bit sad some of those wines will ultimately disappear into a blended wine, but they do point to another outstanding vintage.
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2020
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Bart and Daphne Araujo show no signs of slowing down, if anything they appear to be moving faster than ever. Over the last few years, the Araujos have continued to upgrade the sites that go into their multi-vineyard Accendo Cabernet Sauvignon. I tasted the 2021 from various unblended components. I have to say, it is a bit sad some of those wines will ultimately disappear into a blended wine, but they do point to another outstanding vintage.
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2019
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Bart and Daphne Araujo show no signs of slowing down, if anything they appear to be moving faster than ever. Over the last few years, the Araujos have continued to upgrade the sites that go into their multi-vineyard Accendo Cabernet Sauvignon. I tasted the 2021 from various unblended components. I have to say, it is a bit sad some of those wines will ultimately disappear into a blended wine, but they do point to another outstanding vintage.
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2019
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Bart and Daphne Araujo describe 2019 as a long growing season, but not as long as 2018. The 2019s Cabernets had not been bottled at the time of my visit, hence the scores in brackets. I don't see the 2019 matching the magical 2018, but that would have been a pretty tall feat. The Araujos employ two winemakers, Nigel Kinsman for the reds and Françoise Peschon for the Sauvignon Blanc, which by the way, is terrific in 2020.
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Bart and Daphne Araujo describe 2019 as a long growing season, but not as long as 2018. The 2019s Cabernets had not been bottled at the time of my visit, hence the scores in brackets. I don't see the 2019 matching the magical 2018, but that would have been a pretty tall feat. The Araujos employ two winemakers, Nigel Kinsman for the reds and Françoise Peschon for the Sauvignon Blanc, which by the way, is terrific in 2020.
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2018
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Bart and Daphne Araujo's Accendo wines keep getting better. The 2018 Sauvignon Blanc is the finest vintage of that wine yet. In Cabernet land, the Araujos continue to refine their approach to the sites they work with. Their 2017 Cabernet is fabulous; the 2016 is just as terrific as it was last year, and the 2018 (which I tasted from separate components) is looking like it, too, will be stellar. Going back to the 2017 for a second, a big part of what makes that wine special is that it was made at the Araujo's state of the art Wheeler Farms custom crush facility, designed by winemaker Nigel Kinsman. Equipped with generator power and the most modern equipment, Wheeler Farms operated through the October 2017 fires with no interruptions, which is quite remarkable.
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Bart and Daphne Araujo's Accendo wines keep getting better. The 2018 Sauvignon Blanc is the finest vintage of that wine yet. In Cabernet land, the Araujos continue to refine their approach to the sites they work with. Their 2017 Cabernet is fabulous; the 2016 is just as terrific as it was last year, and the 2018 (which I tasted from separate components) is looking like it, too, will be stellar. Going back to the 2017 for a second, a big part of what makes that wine special is that it was made at the Araujo's state of the art Wheeler Farms custom crush facility, designed by winemaker Nigel Kinsman. Equipped with generator power and the most modern equipment, Wheeler Farms operated through the October 2017 fires with no interruptions, which is quite remarkable.
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2016
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I was deeply impressed with the wines I tasted this year at Accendo with proprietors Bart and Daphne Araujo. The Araujos are now sourcing fruit from some of the top sites in Napa Valley, including Vine Hill Ranch, Sleeping Lady and Oakville Ranch. Tasting the wines in separate components, as I was able to do with the 2017s, is a truly eye-opening experience. Readers should also be on the look out for wines from Accendo's sister label, Trois Noix, which is run by siblings Greg and Jaime Araujo, and is more or less the equivalent to the Altagracia range the Araujos previously made at Araujo Estate, in other words blends of the best fruit that does not go into the top bottlings.
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I was deeply impressed with the wines I tasted this year at Accendo with proprietors Bart and Daphne Araujo. The Araujos are now sourcing fruit from some of the top sites in Napa Valley, including Vine Hill Ranch, Sleeping Lady and Oakville Ranch. Tasting the wines in separate components, as I was able to do with the 2017s, is a truly eye-opening experience. Readers should also be on the look out for wines from Accendo's sister label, Trois Noix, which is run by siblings Greg and Jaime Araujo, and is more or less the equivalent to the Altagracia range the Araujos previously made at Araujo Estate, in other words blends of the best fruit that does not go into the top bottlings.
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2015
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I was quite taken with the wines I tasted from Accendo, Bart and Daphne Araujo's new project. The Cabernet Sauvignon continues to improve, while the Sauvignon Blanc recreates a style readers will recognize from the days of Araujo Estate. With the 2017 vintage Françoise Peschon will focus only on the Sauvignon Blanc, while Nigel Kinsman, who was the winemaker at Araujo Estate when the Araujos sold to François Pinault, takes over the Cabernet Sauvignon.
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2014
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2014
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I was quite taken with the wines I tasted from Accendo, Bart and Daphne Araujo's new project. The Cabernet Sauvignon continues to improve, while the Sauvignon Blanc recreates a style readers will recognize from the days of Araujo Estate. With the 2017 vintage Françoise Peschon will focus only on the Sauvignon Blanc, while Nigel Kinsman, who was the winemaker at Araujo Estate when the Araujos sold to François Pinault, takes over the Cabernet Sauvignon.
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2014
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Bart and Daphne Araujo did not waste much time getting back in the game after their sale of Araujo Estate (now Eisele Vineyard). The Araujos were able to secure fruit from several top sources and rebuild their team in short order, while purchasing two small parcels of land in northern Oakville they call Rancho Pequeno. Bart Araujo told me after years of making a single vineyard Cabernet, he wanted to make a wine that blended fruit from different sources in more of an old-school style. The 2013 Cabernet is clearly a wine of transition, but the 2014 gives a clearer idea of where these wines are going stylistically. Françoise Peschon is the winemaker and Michel Rolland consults. If that weren't enough, the Araujos have also opened a new custom crush facility, Wheeler Farms, which is designed to service the needs of a small number of premium wineries.
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2013
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