Corison Winery — Napa Valley / St. Helena Winery & Tasting Room

Napa Valley / St. Helena · St. Helena AVA
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Hours
By appointment only
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Phone
(707) 963-0826
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Tasting Fee
From $50
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Reservations
Required
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Est.
1987

About Corison Winery

Corison Winery is a dedicated estate winery in prestigious St. Helena sub-appellation at the heart of Napa Valley, producing wines that reflect the character of deep alluvial soils and the warm, sheltered valley floor. Cathy Corison's 1987 St. Helena Kronos Vineyard estate — the San Francisco Chronicle's 2011 Winemaker of the Year produc. The estate's commitment to quality viticulture and site-specific winemaking has earned Corison Winery a respected place among the region's most consistent and genuinely food-friendly producers.

The St. Helena growing environment shapes everything Corison Winery produces. Deep alluvial soils and the warm, sheltered valley floor define the estate's vineyard character, contributing the structure, natural acidity, and terroir specificity that distinguish the finest wines from this appellation. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Zinfandel form the backbone of the portfolio, with each variety expressing a distinct facet of the estate's unique growing conditions. Winemaking at Corison Winery prioritizes transparency and balance over extraction, allowing the appellation's natural character to lead rather than winemaker intervention.

Visitors to Corison Winery can expect a genuine and unhurried tasting experience that reflects the estate's commitment to quality and hospitality. The tasting room provides an authentic introduction to the estate wines and the St. Helena appellation. Whether visiting for a focused flight or a deeper exploration of the estate's vineyard programs, Corison Winery offers the kind of direct producer experience that wine tourism in California wine country is built on — knowledgeable, welcoming, and genuinely connected to the land and the wines it produces.

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Corison Winery isCorison Winery is the most philosophically principled and personally conducted counter-argument to the power-extraction Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon style in California wine.
Cathy Corison —Cathy Corison — who was named San Francisco Chronicle Winemaker of the Year in 2011 and whose 35+ years of Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon production have made her one of the valley's most respected and frequently cited winemaker voices — established her St.
Helena Highway estateHelena Highway estate in 1987 with an explicit conviction that Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon should taste like food-friendly, age-worthy, Bordeaux-inspired wine rather than the massive, high-alcohol, high-extraction wines that critical fashion was pushing California producers toward.
"Cathy Corison's 1987 St. Helena Kronos Vineyard estate — the San Francisco Chronicle's 2011 Winemaker of the Year produc"
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Featured Wines

Cabernet Sauvignon
Kronos Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
St. Helena / Kronos Vineyard
Cathy Corison's most personally significant estate expression — Kronos Vineyard old-vine Cabernet consistently earning 93–97 points for the food-first structural elegance, restraint, and multi-decade aging potential that the SF Chronicle's 2011 Winemaker of the Year's organic estate farming and Bordeaux-informed philosophy produces from her most historic St. Helena benchland vineyard.
Estate
★★★★☆
Cabernet Sauvignon
Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
Napa Valley / St. Helena Estate
Corison's most accessible estate expression — Napa Valley Cabernet from St. Helena and Napa Valley sourcing at a more broadly available tier than the flagship Kronos, showing the same food-first, restrained, elegance-over-power philosophy that has made Cathy Corison one of Napa Valley's most influential and frequently cited winemaker voices.
Estate
★★★★☆
Cabernet Sauvignon
Sunbasket Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
St. Helena / Sunbasket Vineyard
Corison's second single-vineyard St. Helena expression — Sunbasket Vineyard Cabernet providing a contrasting benchland terroir alongside the Kronos Vineyard in the most geographically exploratory and philosophically consistent format of Cathy Corison's principled restraint winemaking program.
Estate
★★★★☆

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Philosopher's Barn Appointment
Appointment with the Napa Valley's most principled counter-voice to extraction-style Cabernet — Kronos Vineyard old-vine Cab at 93–97 points from SF Chronicle's 2011 Winemaker of the Year Cathy Corison, in the small St. Helena barn winery that has produced the valley's most food-first and philosophically consistent estate Cabernet Sauvignon for 35+ years.
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