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Getting back to one’s roots is something Cinzia Accardi knows a lot about. Besides helping to run her families’ California vineyard, she uses the naturally beneficial wine grapes in her own line of spa products.

A beautiful five acre estate in Vacaville, California allows Cinzia’s family the freedom to cultivate and create their own blends of specialty wine. Accardi Vineyards is known for offering sulite free wines – a process that eliminates the commonly added wine preservative that about 40% of people are allergic to. The Accardi family wine is naturally fermented in custom stainless steel wine tanks created by Cinzia’s father himself. This results in high quality varieties of Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Moscato, Red Zinfandel and Merlot wines created in high quality, specialty batches.

Now, enter Cinzia, the woman who had the brilliant idea to use the already organic and natural wine ingredients for her own creative endeavor. She is the creative force behind the aptly named Green Visions bath and spa line that incorporates real wine grapes, wine and crushed grape seeds. The bath products available, ranging from whipped body butter, massage oil and sugar body scrubs, take advantage of the natural antioxidant properties of wine. With this luxurious ingredient, these products create an entirely indulgent bath experience. By having no animal testing, dyes or chemicals, these natural lotions and scrubs are fantastic for everyone, even sensitive skin types who normally shy away from commercialized products.

There’s a wide range of commodities that do more than entice the senses. Besides the products that contain grapes from the family vineyard, Cinzia grows her own organic herbs to add to her creations like rosemary, lavender, and thyme. For this time of year, there are seasonal scents like Harvest Moon and Freshly Baked Zin. Even her Pomegranate Syrah scent is made with homegrown pomegranates! Other items available include the Energizing Coffee Sugar Scrub and the Tea Tree Dead Sea Mud Facial Mask.

Oh, and while your bathing in spa quality crushed grapes seeds, wine and organic herbs all in a steaming hot bath tub don’t forget to try the Cabernet Wine Filled European Dark Chocolates. If that’s not enough to lure you in, read on to get to know Cinzia a bit better and see how one woman is changing the way you think about wine. It’s not just a delicious accompaniment to dinner anymore.

What inspired you to make such unique products?

Ever since I was a young child, I’ve always been fond of cosmetics. When my grandmother moved from Sicily to Chicago in the early 1970’s, she worked as a cosmetic manufacturer for Avon’s plant for over 25 years. She used to send me all sorts of cosmetics: lipsticks, perfumes, eyeshadows, ect. She would send me lotions and perfumes, and I always loved to mix scents and ingredients just to create my own unique scent.

From there, I ended up becoming a product junkie and told myself that someday I would like to create my own line of products.

What made you want to create spa products incorporating the ingredient of wine?

One day my mother and I were organizing our wine cellar and she was upset that my father created too much wine. She kept asking me, “what are we going to do with all of this wine?” Then later that night, I had an idea. I knew that drinking wine was a great health benefit for people, so I decided to research on the skin benefits of wearing wine, as opposed to drinking it. Based on the amount and extentive research I did, I found out so many fascinating things about the “beauty” of wine. The main thing I found out was that Wine is an antioxidant, anti-aging agent, and I found out that years ago, many women used to actually bath in wine to maintan their youthful appearance. I began to experiment with the different wines from our wine cellar, mixing fragrances, and eventually created my own wine sugar scrubs, whipped body creams, and massage oils.

How important are natural and organic ingredients to you?

It is extremely important for me because I have such delicate skin. So in essence, I thought that creating products without any harmful preseravatives and dyes, would be the ‘natural’ thing for me to do based on my own experience. I didn’t want to create an ordinary scrub or lotion. Most of commercialized spa products are filled with many toxins that are harmful to your skin and the sad thing is that most people aren’t educated enough to know about this.

Did you design all the scents yourself?

Yes, I designed the scents myself and blend the scents with the wines to make them more unique.

How much influence does your families’ vineyard have on your products?

My family’s vineyard has a huge influence on my products, mainly for the fact that we do grow our own grapes without using any pesticides, produce and market the wines ourselves, and we market our wines as ’sulite free, naturally fermented’, meaning that we don’t use any harmful preservatives in our wines.

What’s the best part of creating spa products for you clients?

So far the best part is that I’ve met some incredibly intelligent and well respected business owners. I’ve learned a lot from them from gaining marketing skills to learning how to balance being a business owner and spending quality time with my family and friends at the same time. My clients range from spa business owners to housewives who truly know how to appreciate a homemade quality spa product.

What’s your favorite product that you’ve created?

This is actually tough to answer. Mainly because I am the type of person who loves different types of scents, which is why I am in this business. Depending on my mood, that is how I will decide what scent I will wear for that day. I believe that the Cabernet scent is a truly unique blended scent that I created because I haven’t smelled anything like it before.

What do your Cabernet wine filled Chocolates taste like? What about the Cabernet Sauvignon jelly?

Our Cabernet wine filled chocolates are absolutely the best high quality wine filled chocolates I’ve ever tried. They’re dark European Chocolates and filled with just the amount of wine. Our Cabernet Wine Jellies are just as great tasting as our wine chocolates. My mother is actually the creater of the wine jellies. She makes them perfect, added with just enough sugar to blend with the wines. Our wine jellies taste great with toasted bread, bagels, crepes, or as a dessert toppings.

What’s the least enjoyable part of living on a vineyard? The best?

Well owning a vineyard is a lot of hard labor, mainly ensuring the vineyard and tasting room are well kept and organized. It can become overwhelming at times. Sometimes I feel that we work a little too hard, but as a end result, our hard work does pay off. The best part is inviting a group of friends or clients over for dinner and sitting outside and watching the sunset. Great company, good wine and food is very much appreciated by my friends and clients.

For more on Accardi Vineyards please visit here.

For more on Cinzia’s bath line, Green Visions, please visit here.

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