Carole Meredith earns wine award
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:32 pmProfessor emerita Carole Meredith earns wine award
UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
University of California, Davis
July 11. 2013
A scientist responsible for discovering the family ties of several varieties of wine grapes and a vineyard responsible for the rediscovery of the Sierra Foothills as prime viticulture territory is receiving the California State Fair’s top wine and viticulture honors.
Carole Meredith, professor emerita of the Department of Viticulture and Enology at the University of California, Davis, is receiving the State Fair’s Wine Lifetime Achievement Award.
She was among early researchers to develop DNA markers for grapes, then used them to identify the genetic and geographic origins of numerous varieties.
A native of Wales who spent her formative years in Canada and California, Meredith joined UC Davis as an assistant professor in 1980 where she oversaw research in grapevine genetics, including the creation of a genome map now used internationally to identify genes that control disease resistance and fruit quality in wine grapes.
Her use of DNA profiling has been instrumental in solving several longstanding vineyard mysteries, such as tracing the origin of the zinfandel grape to Croatia.
Earlier honors include the Chevaliere de l’Ordre du Merite Agricole, awarded by the French government in 2000, and her induction in 2009 to the California Vintners Hall of Fame in Napa Valley. Today, she and her husband, Stephen Lagier, tend vines in the Mount Veeder district of Napa Valley, releasing their wines under the label Lagier Meredith.
The award recipients were chosen by California State Fair’s Wine Advisory Task Force. For information about the California State Fair visit http://www.bigfun.org.
This article is reprinted from the Mountain Democrat, July 10, 2013,
http://www.mtdemocrat.com/prospecting/p ... ine-award/
UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
University of California, Davis
July 11. 2013
A scientist responsible for discovering the family ties of several varieties of wine grapes and a vineyard responsible for the rediscovery of the Sierra Foothills as prime viticulture territory is receiving the California State Fair’s top wine and viticulture honors.
Carole Meredith, professor emerita of the Department of Viticulture and Enology at the University of California, Davis, is receiving the State Fair’s Wine Lifetime Achievement Award.
She was among early researchers to develop DNA markers for grapes, then used them to identify the genetic and geographic origins of numerous varieties.
A native of Wales who spent her formative years in Canada and California, Meredith joined UC Davis as an assistant professor in 1980 where she oversaw research in grapevine genetics, including the creation of a genome map now used internationally to identify genes that control disease resistance and fruit quality in wine grapes.
Her use of DNA profiling has been instrumental in solving several longstanding vineyard mysteries, such as tracing the origin of the zinfandel grape to Croatia.
Earlier honors include the Chevaliere de l’Ordre du Merite Agricole, awarded by the French government in 2000, and her induction in 2009 to the California Vintners Hall of Fame in Napa Valley. Today, she and her husband, Stephen Lagier, tend vines in the Mount Veeder district of Napa Valley, releasing their wines under the label Lagier Meredith.
The award recipients were chosen by California State Fair’s Wine Advisory Task Force. For information about the California State Fair visit http://www.bigfun.org.
This article is reprinted from the Mountain Democrat, July 10, 2013,
http://www.mtdemocrat.com/prospecting/p ... ine-award/