Eisele Vineyard.

Frederic Engerer

Winemaker

Why did the French winemaker who crafts bottles at Napa's most legendary vineyard vanish on a full moon night, leaving behind only a Cabernet marked with an impossible vintage year?

Milton Eisele

Founder

What made a man with no formal winemaking training create one of Napa Valley's most legendary vineyards in 1969?

Barbara Eisele

Founder

When Barbara Eisele co-founded her legendary vineyard in 1969, did she know the empire she built would one day become the center of California wine's most bitter inheritance battle?

Paul Draper

Winemaker

Why did the legendary winemaker behind California's first vineyard-designated wine choose grapes from a vineyard that remains shrouded in controversy to this day?

Daphne Araujo

Proprietor

When Daphne Araujo discovered that 1991 Cabernet at Eisele Vineyard, why did she insist the bottle couldn't possibly exist?

Bart Araujo

Proprietor

When Bart Araujo sold his legendary Eisele Vineyard to Moët & Chandon, why did the buyers insist he keep one specific vintage bottle?

Jackson G. Randall

Viticulturist

Why would a 19th-century viticulturist's partnership with a mysterious figure result in vines that are still considered Napa Valley's most prized terroir today?

Charles Nathan Pickett

Viticulturist

Why would a viticulturist who planted the first vines in the 1880s become the key clue to Napa Valley's most mysterious disappearance a century later?