@cathycorison

Napa Valley benchland Cabernet Sauvignon with power and elegance and a sense of place @corisonwinery.

 Napa Valley, California
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Joined May 2009
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Farewell Twitter.
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Celebrating Elaine jancisrobinson.com/articles/…

Celebrating Elaine

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Currently at a wine tasting, fuming at how the young women in groups of tasters look sidelined by their male colleagues and suspecting they are the best tasters of the group anyway #utterlyunsubstantiatedsentiment
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Hear! Hear! Minimal intervention matters; it allows a wine to express its life force. We are shepherds. Those of us with a sound technical foundation have a toolbox that we hope never to use.
Blackwater wine@Blackwaterwine4 Oct 2022
Replying to @Blackwaterwine @cathycorison
Minimal intervention relates to the NUMBER and SEVERITY of things done to make wine, not the amount of effort, attention or quality of what is done.
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There’s No Such Thing as ‘Low-Intervention’ Wine — So Why Does the Industry Champion the Term? vinepair.com/articles/low-in… via @VinePair

There’s No Such Thing as ‘Low-Intervention’ Wine — So Why Does the Industry Champion the Term?

It took me a while to figure out why, over the last half-decade or so, I’ve started to recoil more and more at the use of the term “low-intervention” in the wine industry. At first, I thought it was...

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Low intervention does not mean low work, nor does it mean low technical ability. Grapegrowing IS winemaking. Great grapes make great wine. Period.
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How to succeed in blind tasting? Get a peek at the label, and/or try to leave any preconceptions at the door jancisrobinson.com/articles/…

All about blind tasting

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Four Ways to Think About Wine nytimes.com/2022/08/19/dinin…

Four Ways to Think About Wine (Published 2022)

You can improve your drinking experience by taking a more thoughtful approach to the bottles you choose and how you judge what’s in your glass.

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Grape trucks!
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We are hiring hosts @corisonwinery! Please DM for more information.
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Tasting History With Historic Napa/Sonoma Wineries From The ‘Cool Class’ Of 1972. This is the ferment I encountered on arrival in 1975. Other newcomers included Caymus, Mount Veeder, Silver Oak, Cakebread, Spottswoode, Clos du Val, Chalk Hill. It's been a ride! ://bit.ly/3zveaRz
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Napa Valley Vintners Returns to London for a Stream of Premium Wine Events… gregsherwoodmw.com/2022/06/2… via @gregsherwoodmw
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thedrinksbusiness.com/2022/0… This kept us relatively sane during lockdown in 2020! It was a joyful collaboration.

One-off Napa winemaker blend offered to UK buyers

A one-off Napa Cabernet blend comprising equal parts of the best wines from four of California’s most famous female winemakers is to be offered to UK buyers today.

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Go Ahead. Put Ice Cubes in Your Wine. foodandwineaesthetics.com/20… Last week in London my hotel offered a decent, if slightly boozy, red wine by the glass, served way too warm during a heat spell. A strategic ice cube made it infinitely better.

Go Ahead. Put Ice Cubes in Your Wine.

Rules have a way of escaping the context in which they have a point. They become rigid as their champions ignore the need for contextual judgment. So it is with the rule that you should never put i…

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No. Just no.
Cathy Corison@cathycorison1 Jun 2022
Jonathan Waters (1962 to 2022) – A Remembrance – Wine & Spirits Magazine wineandspiritsmagazine.com/n…
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Jonathan Waters (1962 to 2022) – A Remembrance – Wine & Spirits Magazine wineandspiritsmagazine.com/n…
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St. Helena, CA@StHelenaCA28 Apr 2022
A visit to @corisonwinery is like a warm hug, from the gracious hospitality and the the delectable wines in your glass. The Library Tasting flight features one of their single-vineyard Cabs and a selection from the library. corison.com #MyStHelena
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thedrinksbusiness.com/2021/1… Word.

'Family wine companies are not dinosaurs, they are the future'

At an event in Brussels last week to celebrate an inaugural €100,000 prize from the Primum Familiae Vini (PFV), the association’s chairman, Paul Symington, stressed that family wine companies are far...

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