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Chris Hall
Vice President & General Manager
(The national ambassador of Long Meadow Ranch’s portfolio of family-run businesses, Chris Hall also oversees the latest offering from the Hall family: Long Meadow Ranch Winery & Farmstead, a sustainable food, wine and agricultural center located in St. Helena. A local gathering place and Napa Valley destination, the multi-use location offers an array of experiences for lovers of local food and wines, including fresh farm-to-table dining, wine and olive oil tasting, and engaging educational experiences that underscore Long Meadow Ranch’s motto of “Excellence through Responsible Farming.”
Chris is also responsible for the wine program at Farmstead restaurant, which features Long Meadow Ranch’s wines as well as other domestic and international wines selected by Chris to complement the restaurant’s American farmhouse cooking.
As Long Meadow Ranch’s general manager, Chris creates and executes sales programs directed at achieving the family’s goals for serving the nation's top restaurants and consumers. In the Napa Valley, he provides a single, integrated point of contact for Long Meadow Ranch’s highly valued Napa Valley customers. Chris frequently takes to the road across the country attending trade tastings, hosting educational events about Long Meadow Ranch, and conducting special events, including winemaker's dinners featuring Long Meadow Ranch products. The original architect of Long Meadow Ranch’s organic fruit and vegetable programs, Chris also serves an advisory role for the production at LMR Rutherford Gardens.
From the very beginning, Chris has been a driving force in the development of the diversified farming activities at Long Meadow Ranch. With the establishment of his first egg-laying poultry flock in 1991, Chris began selling eggs to neighbors and friends. This venture was quickly augmented with the first production of vegetables from a garden he planted with his brother, Timothy. In the summer of 1991, Chris and Tim made their first appearance at the Napa Valley Farmers' Market in St. Helena, and Chris has been active in the business of the ranch ever since.
With an entrepreneurial drive and a natural strength in leadership, the San Francisco native has served in a variety of roles across the full range of the Hall family businesses, including production manager for LMR Rutherford Gardens, on-premise sales manager and, most recently, national sales manager.
A second-generation vintner dedicated to producing elegant, food-friendly artisan wines, Chris is the current president of NG: The Next Generation in Wine, a vintners association that counts among its members family winery and vineyard owners in the Napa Valley who are second generation or later.
Chris is a licensed Emergency Medical Technician and a member of the local Rutherford Volunteer Fire Department, having studied geology and fire science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He lives on the ranch in the historic "Winery House," which was once the Hassenmeyer Winery with his Bernese mountain dog Oliver.
