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Virtual Wine Tasting Long Meadow Ranch St Helena CA Ted and Laddie Hall full circle farming Highland cattle
0:00 start
0:07 history
2:17 Jeff Meisel
5:20 Olive Oil
8:03 LMR Family
8:35 Mountain Estate
8:53 AVA map
10:33 Full Circle Farming
11:18 Cabernet Sauvignon
16:38 Scottish Highland Cattle
20:19 Organic Fruit and Vegetables
21:18 Farmstead
26:39 Rutherford Estate
28:44 Sauvignon Blanc
34:24 CCOF
35:07 Global Distribution
36:56 COVID19
38:10 Mountain Valley Experience
40:25 Napa Valley Cabernet
42:28 Anderson Valley
48:09 future Lodge at Farmstead
50:41 Pinot Noir Rose
51:50 Farmstead
52:13 Corkage for the Community
53:49 LMR Corral Club
54:10 Chef’s Cabin
THE STORY OF LONG MEADOW RANCH
In the late 1800’s, the majestic Long Meadow Ranch property thrived with vineyards, apple orchards, olive groves, hay and a goat milk dairy until farming fell dormant during Prohibition. Over the following years, the property became swallowed by the encroaching forest until the Halls bought the property in 1989.
The Hall family carefully breathed life back into the land, nurturing it back to its glory, and then some, by cutting back the abandoned olive trees and replanting the vineyards and apple orchards as you see them growing today. Home to the Mayacamas Estate, the rugged 650-acre landscape nestled in the foothills of the Mayacamas Mountains also gave way to a long, sweeping meadow, thus the name Long Meadow Ranch was born.
TED AND LADDIE HALL
Ted and Laddie’s story began in the late 1960’s. After high school, Ted set out for Princeton University. Two years later, Laddie was accepted to the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Introduced by family in La Porte, Texas because of their similar plans to head east, Ted and Laddie shared a college dance and a courtship followed. The two married in 1971. After a short time in the military, the couple moved to Northern California so Ted could attend business school at Stanford University. Not surprisingly, the move to California ignited a love of winemaking in Ted and he soon dreamed of owning his own vineyard.
Ted and Laddie live on our Mayacamas Estate property. You can find Laddie at the farmer’s market every week and Ted on stage playing the melodic sounds of jazz greats on his trombone.
FULL CIRCLE FARMING
An organic, sustainable, integrated farming system that relies on each part of the ranch to contribute to the health of the whole.
COMPOST
We make our own fertilizers on the ranch through an extensive composting operation that relies on organic material from each segment of the ranch. When we’re done with the crop season, we move organic material like old pumpkin vines and dead tomato plants into a compost pile, then we add chicken manure as the source of essential nitrogen. By spring, the compost is ready to go back on the field as fertilizer.
SOLAR POWER
We use solar energy to power our commercial and residential needs. This clean form of energy production saves nearly 70 tons of carbon monoxide a year as compared to a natural gas power plant.VINEYARDS
Vineyards are the backbone of Long Meadow Ranch. All of our vineyards, over 150 planted acres in Napa and Anderson Valleys, are farmed using organic practices certified by California Certified Organic Farmers. We farm Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Sangiovese, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and Pinot Gris.
OLIVE GROVES
Our Prato Lungo (Italian for Long Meadow) groves are the oldest olive orchards in Napa Valley, dating back to the 1870’s. Abandoned for years, these trees were hidden by dense forest until Ted and Chris Hall discovered them while exploring the property on Appaloosas (excellent horses for mountain terrain) in the 1990’s. We cultivate eight acres of these ancient trees and even propagated them to grow new ones to fill in missing plots in the historic grove. Chris planted additional groves using Italian cultivars Frantoio, Leccino, Pendolino and Moraiolo for our Napa Valley Select olive oil.
HIGHLAND CATTLE
The Highland breed has lived for centuries in the rugged, remote highlands of Scotland, where extremely harsh conditions led to natural selection. Only the fittest, most adaptable animals survived. Long Meadow Ranch is proud to have one of the largest herds of this fine animal in California. Several hundred strong, these pasture-raised cattle are at home on our more than 800-acre Tomales Station.
Membership
Join the LMR Corral Club to savor Long Meadow Ranch wines year-round, and enjoy unique benefits and hospitality at its finest.
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