Category: Blog Posts
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S54 E1 31 | Relationships
🤎 Brown Estate has always held a special place in our hearts. It’s a stunningly beautiful ranch carved out of a very rugged hillside. A wonderfully restored old Victorian home nestled under the trees, with a perfectly tuned grand piano under the main window that was an absolute joy to play every time we visited.…
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S54 E1 25 | Torque & Tau
📚 Torque is a measure of the force that can cause an object to rotate about an axis. Just as force is what causes an object to accelerate in linear kinematics, torque is what causes an object to acquire angular acceleration. 🧮 Torque is calculated by multiplying the force applied by the distance from the…
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S54 E1 22 | Barrelheads & Headspace
✍️ In winemaking parlance, headspace is the empty area above the surface of the wine inside a partial tank. For example, if you have a 500 gallon tank, but only 400 gallons of wine, then you’ve got a 100 gallon headspace. When making wine, we generally try to avoid headspace, as it can promote a…
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S54 E1 21 | A Library of Memories
⌛️History happened, it shouldn’t be erased. I enjoyed contributing forty years of my life to a family wine business. I’ve recently moved on to chart new winemaking adventures, but the memories pop up, and some of them were great. 🗓️ We hosted a major national retail account on this day two years ago, and did…
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S54 E1 21 | Certified Organic Grapes
CHRIS CORLEY WINES | Heritage & Tradition The Knollwood Vineyard | Oak Knoll DistrictThe State Lane Vineyard | Yountville 🍇 Winegrower : Kevin Corley🍷 Winemaker : Chris Corley ⏳ More than 50 years ago, Jay Corley established vineyards in the southern end of the Napa Valley, where the temperatures were a little cooler, and the…
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S54 E1 18 | The Knollwood Vineyard
CHRIS CORLEY WINES | Heritage & Tradition The Knollwood Vineyard | Napa ValleyOak Knoll District of Napa ValleyCertified Organic | Est 1985Winegrower : Kevin CorleyWinemaker : Chris Corley 🍇 The Knollwood Vineyard was established in 1985 in the Oak Knoll District of Napa Valley. Located on Big Ranch Road in the southern, cooler end of…
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S54 E1 16 | The Spin Rate of Wine Aging
CHRIS CORLEY WINES | Heritage & Tradition ✍️ In my last post, I referred to a connection between a wines ageability and baseball pitchers spin rate. This was a result of a fascinating conversation I had a couple of years ago, while hosting a family friend at the winery. ⚾️ Nick Belmonte hs been in…
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S54 E1 14 | The State Lane Vineyard
The State Lane VineyardYountville, Napa Valley 🍷 The 2015 State Lane Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon is 10 years old this year! It’s always fun and enlightening tasting these big, rich, valley floor wines throughout their lives. 🗓️ The ten year interval is one of my favorite tasting markers on the library timeline for big ageworthy wines…
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S54 E1 13 | The Corley Room at Casa Baloyan
CHRIS CORLEY WINES | Heritage & TraditionS54 E1 14 | Casa Baloyan, Tijuana The Corley Room at Casa Baloyan We’re honored to have had a very special room at Casa Baloyan named in recognition of our family … The Corley Room. The Corley Room at Casa Baloyan is a VIP Tasting Salon and Private Dining…
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S54 E1 12 | The John Barleycorn Society
CHRIS CORLEY WINES | Heritage & TraditionS54 E1 | The John Barleycorn Society “Dedicated to the hedonistic pursuit of intoxicating knowledge” – Chris Corley ⏳ Back in the late 1900s, I assembled a group of libation-oriented friends and colleagues as a first-hand, ongoing, collective think tank on wine and spirits, a tasting group. ✍️We named…
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