Lagier Meredith

The Lagier-Meredith property is about a mile distant from Pott directly along the ridge to the south. Like Pott, the soils here are the classic Mayacamas marine sandwich of sandstone and shale.  Carole and Steve planted their first Syrah vines in 1994, adding three additional varieties (Mondeuse noire, Zinfandel and Malbec) a decade later. The vineyard occupies a small southeast facing promontory at around 1300 feet above the valley. Syrah loves a view and this one is first class – lovers of their wines will know it well from their wine label.

The two properties are connected by a fire trail that used to be a ridge road connecting Napa and Sonoma via the mountains.  Since 2004 we’ve traversed it hundreds of time back and forth to Steve and Carol’s house for pizzas and pingpong, to lend and borrow machinery and to examine troublesome vines.  It’s a narrow ATV track with plunging drop offs on both sides, but it’s an animal super highway.

We set up a trail camera at the summit and captured all kinds of “traffic”, some of whom now grace the wine labels for our 3 Lagier-Meredith Vineyard wines.