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Larkmead Vineyards

Sub-AVA · Calistoga

Further reading: Producer's own site

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Editorial profile

Larkmead Vineyards farms a 115-acre estate in Calistoga, at the north end of Napa Valley, and has been under vine since the mid-1800s. Founded in 1895, the estate has been in the hands of the Solari family since 1948, and the current lineup is built around estate-grown Cabernet Sauvignon, both as a broad estate bottling and in the single-block Solari, The Lark and Dr Olmo selections.

Firebelle, a Bordeaux-style red blend prominently featuring Merlot, and the occasional LMV Salon red blend round out the reds. Three whites diversify the portfolio: Lillie Estate Sauvignon Blanc, Estate Tocai Friulano and Estate Chenin Blanc, planted on the estate's varied hillside-like soils of ancient riverbed gravel, clay and loam. The vineyard is farmed organically under viticulturist Kelly Maher and vineyard manager Nabor Camerena.

Winemaker
Avery Heelan

Facts read from larkmead.com

What's on file

Address

1100 LARKMEAD LN

Where it's registered

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  • Principal1100 LARKMEAD LN, CALISTOGA

The ground it sits on

Sub-AVA · Calistoga

6.1

pH, 1:1 water

15.0cm

, whole profile

132cm

to

Well drained

, dominant condition

Distribution across 44 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar

6.1
6.3%
21.2%
available water
15.0cm
depth to restriction
132cm

Dominant

  • 33.9%
  • 21.9%
  • 12.9%
  • 10.5%
  • 3.6%

44 map units · soil described over 97.5% of the region’s area · 9.8% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 54% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.

Wines

9 of 9 wines link to the page they were read from. The list is what a producer publishes about itself, one citation at a time — it is not a catalog, and a wine missing from it is uncurated rather than unmade.