Lagier Meredith Vineyard was established in 1986 when Stephen Lagier and Carole Meredith bought a 4.5-acre vineyard in Mount Veeder. The couple had backgrounds in winemaking. Stephen worked for Robert Mondavi and Carole was a professor at UC Davis in the department of Viticulture and Enology, where, among other subjects, she did research on the origins of wine grapes. They planted vines in 1994 and released their first commercial vintage in 2000. Vineyards are planted to Syrah, Mondeuse, Malbec and Zinfandel. Lagier Meredith wines have won praise from reviewers and ratings in the mid-90s. Robert M. Parker Jr. has written that Carole Meredith’s Mt. Veeder Syrah is “consistently one of the great Syrahs made in California.”