On a previous trip to Napa I tasted with Nigel Kinsman, the winemaker for the Accendo and Wheeler Farms projects owned by the Araujo family. I also tasted Kinsman’s own wines, but held back on covering them until I could both taste the wines blind for official Wine Spectator reviews as well as tour the vineyard sites Kinsman is using.
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