Carole Meredith

Carole Meredith is the University of California, Davis geneticist who pioneered the use of DNA typing to differentiate between Vitis vinifera grape varieties. She is responsible for proving that Zinfandel, Primitivo, and Crljenak Kaštelanski are identical, as well as Charbono and Corbeau. She has now retired from academia and grows world-class Syrah in the Mount Veeder appellation of Napa Valley with her husband, Stephen Lagier, under the Lagier-Meredith label.