Pride Mountain Vineyards – NAPA GALA

PRIDE MOUNTAIN VINEYARDS

Pride Mountain Vineyards sits high atop the Mayacamas Mountains straddling the Napa/Sonoma county line. Located at the site of historic Summit Ranch, where wine grapes have been grown since 1869, this beautiful setting includes wine caves dug deep into the mountains and the haunting ruins of an old stone winery dating to 1890.

Founded in 1990 by Jim and Carolyn Pride, Pride Mountain Vineyards is recognized as one of the “world’s greatest wine estates” by Robert Parker, Jr., joining just 22 other California wineries for this distinction.Pride wines have appeared numerous times on The Wine Spectator’s Top 100 Wines of the World list, and have been served at the White House more than 25 times during the last two decades.

In 2004, second-generation siblings Suzanne Pride Bryan and Steve Pride took the reins, furthering Pride Mountain Vineyards’ tradition of producing highly lauded wines. In the cellar, winemaker Sally Johnson and her team work with the property’s exceptional estate-grown cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc, syrah, sangiovese and chardonnay to produce world-class cuvées deserving of a place in any serious collector’s cellar.

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STEVE PRIDE

DIRECTOR OF WINEGROWING & CEO

Steve has been responsible for guiding Pride Mountain Vineyards since 2004. As both the Director of Winegrowing and CEO, he involves himself in all aspects of the business from viticulture to winemaking, from management to marketing. But his main focus each day is in leading the farming practices on the winery’s 85 acres of vines. Steve is also proud of contributing to and promoting the general spirit that permeates Pride Mountain Vineyards, in which the entire staff places a priority on being concerned for the wellbeing and happiness of everybody they come in contact with: guests, long-term customers, new customers, vendors, other professional relations, colleagues and to the greater community in which they live.

Before his parents created the winery in 1991, Steve began his career as an academic scientist. After completing a BA at the University of California at Berkeley and a PhD at Texas A&M University, both in geophysics, and after two years as a post-doc at MIT, he married his French wife Laurence in 1992 and became a professor that year at the University of Paris before moving to the University of Rennes in France in 1998.

In 2000, he took a sabbatical at Stanford University as a visiting professor, which enabled him to spend time with his Dad Jim who was diagnosed with cancer in the fall of 2001. Jim died in 2004 at which time Steve moved back from France and took over responsibility for the winery. He also obtained a staff-scientist position at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab along with an adjunct-professor position at UC Berkeley and split his time equally from 2004 to 2019 between the winery and science. Since 2020, Steve has been focused only on winery business and farming and lives at the vineyards with Laurence. They have two grown boys Tom and Sam.