In a sale that closed last week, longtime owners and founders Nancy and Ray Coursen handed off the winery to Cheryl Foil and Josh Peeples of Yountville.

The sale includes the Elyse label and inventory, as well as the winery and adjacent acre and a half of Cabernet Sauvignon on Hoffman Lane, just south of Yountville. The sale price was not disclosed.

“The reason we’re selling is because Nancy and I got old somehow,” Ray Coursen said last week.

In the more than 30 years since its first vintage – just a few hundred cases of Zinfandel from Marisoli Vineyard in the Rutherford Bench – the Coursens built a national following for Elyse wines around an approach atypical of a Napa producer. Opting for Rhone-style blends and lesser-grown varietals like Zinfandel and Petite Sirah, the winery has offered less spotlight to the more lucrative Cabernet Sauvignon,