The Barn, designed by Alder & Tweed, is furnished with locally sourced antiques and Shaker-inspired touches and also has a movie theater, a 10-pin bowling alley, and an arts-and-crafts room with its own wood-fired pottery kiln. This summer, as buyers were snapping up homes at the property (seven were sold in just the past month alone), Silo Ridge Field Club debuted the Barn, an 11,000-square-foot gathering space complete with a dining room with views of the Berkshire Mountains and farm-to-table food with ingredients culled from the property’s organic gardens. When he opened the Silo Ridge Field Club, with its Tom Fazio–designed golf course, in 2016 in upstate Amenia, New York-his first East Coast venture-Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen were among the first to sign up. Meldman’s Discovery Land Company has pioneered a unique hybrid: He creates luxurious turnkey real estate developments in vacation destinations, then combines them with members-only golf clubs and other sports amenities-from the champion ski hill (right outside your door) at Montana’s Yellowstone Club to fishing and yachting at Baker's Bay in the Bahamas. But for Meldman, that was just a side hustle. As the cofounder-with George Clooney and Rande Gerber-of the runaway success Casamigos tequila line, Mike Meldman could have rested on his laurels as the man behind a billion-dollar margarita (the company was sold to the massive beverage conglomerate Diageo in 2017, reportedly for as much as $1 billion).
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