Pride Mountain Vineyards – NAPA GALA

PRIDE MOUNTAIN VINEYARDS

Pride Mountain Vineyards sits high atop Napa Valley’s Spring Mountain, at the site of the historic Summit Ranch, where wine grapes have been grown since 1885. Our beautiful estate includes wine caves dug deep into the mountains and the ruins of the old stone Summit Winery dating to 1890. As you walk the vineyards, there are 360-degree views with Mount St. Helena and the Vaca Mountains to the north and east and the Sonoma Coastal Ranges to the west and south. It’s simply breathtaking.

Pride Mountain Vineyards is one of the few multi-generational family wineries left in the North Coast, wholly owned by the second generation of the Pride family, brother and sister Steve Pride and Suzanne Pride-Bryan. Steve Pride is both the CEO and the Director of Winegrowing. With a PhD in geophysics, Steve naturally took to farming our eight distinct soil types that span 85 planted acres. He is always out in the vineyard with our crew or in the cellar with winemaker, Matt Ward, discussing winemaking protocols. Suzanne is involved with our philanthropic efforts alongside her husband, Vintner Ambassador, Stuart Bryan.

One of the most unique and interesting feature to the Pride estate is our AVA designation. At the crest of the Mayacamas Mountains, we are on the Napa-Sonoma county line. For this reason, our wines often carry a Napa-Sonoma designation. Most of the wines are estate, but because we rest in two AVAs, we cannot put the “Estate” moniker on our wines. Far from regional blends, Pride wines are emblematic of our mountaintop terroir and unique position both within two counties and also as a place unto ourselves.

While it may take a little work to discover our secluded estate, the quality of the wines, uniqueness of the property, and inimitable hospitality shown to our guests has ingratiated us to many a wine lover. As a result, demand for our wines is quite high and they are allocated almost exclusively to restaurants.

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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.