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winery on the property. Daphne stated "Our intent was to have a vineyard. But before we even closed escrow, Bart realized that it was important to also make the wine, to control the whole process from beginning to end." Shortly after purchasing the property, the
Araujos built a barn-like winery out of
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The estate's last vintage bearing the Araujo name was 2013. On the occasion of the release of the first vintage under the new ownership, Araujo Estate Wines has been renamed Eisele
Vineyard Estate, putting forward the name of the iconic terroir. The first Eisele Vineyard Cabernet vintage (2013) made
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in 1964. Bart, who had come from a career in home building and mortgage banking, and Daphne, who had a background in landscape architecture, had been interested in acquiring an historical vineyard property. When they purchased the Eisele
Vineyard from Milt and Barbara Eisele, they decided to build a
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Araujos began farming the Eisele Vineyard organically in 1998. Soon they began looking into farming the vineyard biodynamically, an agricultural practice that eschews chemical inputs of any kind and coordinates the timing of farming practices around the lunar and astronomical calendar. In 2002
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Barbara Eisele, who owned the vineyard prior to Bart and Daphne Araujo, the Eisele Vineyard has long been known for the quality of its Cabernet Sauvignon. Eisele provided grapes for what is thought to be the third vineyard-designated Cabernet Sauvignon in California, a 1971 from
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bought the 162-acre property in
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