PEJU Province Winery
PEJU Winery
It was the love of farming and a passion for wine that brought Tony and Herta Peju to the Napa Valley nearly 30 years ago. After selling their nursery business in southern California to purchase a 30-acre wild, overgrown vineyard in Rutherford, the couple embarked upon a journey to transform the land and its bounty from a vision into a reality. The family’s humble winemaking efforts began inside their garage, then a makeshift tasting room, and have since grown into one of Napa Valley’s most notable landmarks and a celebrated 35,000-case wine operation.
Daughters Lisa and Ariana Peju have also joined the family business, paving the way into the future. The Peju vineyards are a combination of certified organic and sustainable, with the goal of achieving organic certification for all in the next few years. In addition, Peju is one of only 21 wineries to earn certification as a Napa Green Winery and Bay Area Green Business.
Still focused on an early commitment to produce high-quality wines that exhibit a graceful combination of power and elegance, Peju prides itself on offering the majority of its wine collection directly to guests in the tasting room and through the Peju Wine Club.
Lisa Peju, Peju Ambassador
There's no such thing as a typical day for Lisa Peju. The oldest daughter of Peju co-founders Tony and HB Peju is always on the go, sometimes traveling to three different states during a week's time to represent Peju Family Estates Wines at winemaker dinners, trade and consumer events and meet with retailers. You may recognize Lisa from her popular ads that run in the San Francisco Chronicle and various other wine country publications. Lisa's passion and love for her family's business shines through in every photo.
The Peju's Rutherford vineyard has been home to Lisa since she was six years old. It was then that she moved with her parents from Southern California to wine country to begin a life devoted to growing grapes, producing high-quality wines and finding new and innovative ways to market the family brand.
Lisa spent her childhood attending Napa Valley schools during the day and tending to the vineyard in the evenings and on weekends. It wasn't uncommon to see Lisa and her sister Ariana driving the family four-wheeler along the property's dirt paths with piles of grapes in the back bed.
After graduating from St. Helena High School, Lisa first attended Marymount College in Palos Verdes and then U.C. Santa Barbara to study marketing and graphic design with plans of becoming a computer animator. But a summer trip to Paris in 1999 to study French at Sorbonne University with Ariana planted the seeds for another calling. Three years later, the French language came in handy as HB took her daughters to VIN EXPO in Bordeaux, the largest wine Exposition in the World. Lisa enjoyed promoting Peju's wines so much that she decided to change career paths and join the family business as a marketing and public relations ambassador.
The position was a perfect fit, and it meant that Lisa would play an integral role in carrying on the family tradition of producing award-winning wines into the future.
Since joining Peju in 2001, Lisa has traveled throughout Europe and Asia, including Japan, Korea and Hong Kong, representing Peju. In the United States, Lisa has blanketed the map and led the charge to reach younger customers. Peju's consumers of the future. From beyond the Napa Valley, Lisa brings Peju wines to homes and businesses across the world.
