Accendo Cellars Sauvignon Blanc Napa Valley 2018
This flashy and refreshing white wine features gorgeous aromas of pear, grapefruit, orange blossom and lemon sorbet. These captivating notes open up on the palate to include succulent white peach, key lime and melon notes with a luscious, silky texture. This mouth-watering wine shows tremendous crispness of fresh fruit with subtle notes of ginger on the tangy finish. Enjoy over the next 4-5 years.
Accendo Winery
At Accendo, Bart and Daphne Araujo are privileged and grateful to be working again
with much of the same small team that helped them build Araujo Estate. The collective
knowledge and experience of professionals like Françoise Peschon, winemaker; Michel
Rolland, enologist; and Steve Matthiasson, viticulturist, are integral to their
winegrowing success.
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
source grapes from some of the finest vineyard sites and terroir in Napa Valley; to make
a wine of balance and restraint in the style of Napa Valley’s past wines; and to produce
this wine with the commitment, energy and meticulous attention to detail that have
characterized their past efforts.
The Wine
- Winery Accendo
- Vintage 2018
- Varietal Sauvignon Blanc
- Style Boutique
- Winemaker Francois Peschon
- Production Boutique
Locale
- Country USA
- State California
- Region Napa Valley
Cellar Notes
- Aromatics Grapefruit, Lemon Citrus, Orange Blossom, Pear, White Peach
- Tasting Notes Ginger, Key Lime Pie, Melon
- Food Pairings Crab and Asparagus Salad, Goat Cheese, Oysters, Seared Scallops with Morel mushrooms
- Aging Fermented in new and used French oak barrels, concrete eggs and stainless-steel drums, aged sur lie.
- Opening Now through 2027
Ratings
- Our Rating 97 - Classic