Wine.Woot: The Community: Woot Wines: Corison Helios Label

Feb 26, 2009 12:01 AM
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Corison Helios Label - Two Pack

Speed to First Woot:: 0m 4.000s

First Sucker:: mgdsh

Last Wooter to Woot:: RacerPup

Last Purchase:: 4 years ago

Order Pace (rank):: Bottom 37% of Wine Woots; Bottom 34% of all Woots

Woots Sold (rank):: Top 9% of Wine Woots; Top 19% of all Woots

Purchaser Experience

8% first woot
6% second woot
21% < 10 woots
25% < 25 woots
41% ≥ 25 woots

Purchaser Seniority

5% joined today
1% one week old
3% one month old
24% one year old
67% > one year old

Quantity Breakdown

56% bought 1
26% bought 2
17% bought 3

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Quality Posts

(12:01 AM, 2/26/2009) Corrado makes with the standard CellarTracker linkage.
(12:05 AM, 2/26/2009) Cesare visits the winery website.
(12:08 AM, 2/26/2009) mlhelm would like to know, "how does this compare to Cathy's other wines?"
(12:15 AM, 2/26/2009) ahaslett would like to know, "The product description makes this seem like "reject" juice (without all that negative connotation). I can see the marketing strategies behind a wine that can only be bought at the winery, but apart from that and the price, what sets this apart from your normal distributions?"
(12:22 AM, 2/26/2009) kylemittskus has to know, 'Cellarability of these please?"
(4:24 AM, 2/26/2009) jwhite6114 does a butt-waggling dance that, in bee speech, means, "Have a spreadsheet."
(12:07 PM, 2/26/2009) [WINERY] cathycorison joins in, "The story behind the Helios label is that I have always made more wine each year than I expect to bottle in order to allow me to select aggressively at blending time for the Corison Cabernet. There are several reasons that a lot, or part of a lot, might not make the blend..."
(12:17 PM, 2/26/2009) [WINERY] cathycorison says, "I never throw numbers around when I’m selling wine. Heck, I don’t even understand them. That said, these wines are structured like all my wines- under 14% alcohol, good natural acidity and healthy low pH (3.5-3.6) for structure, which helps..."
(12:30 PM, 2/26/2009) [WINERY] cathycorison tells us, "Like all of my wines, I hold the Helios offerings for at least a year in the bottle before I release them so they are ready to drink. Typical of grapes grown properly on benchland between..."
(12:33 PM, 2/26/2009) Loweeel digs in, "I was hoping you could just comment a bit about the vintages of the Merlot and the Cab. It strikes me as unusual that the Merlot is an older vintage than the Cab."
(12:38 PM, 2/26/2009) jwink ponders cellaring, "are we talking 3-4 years or 10+ years?"
(1:09 PM, 2/26/2009) cathycorison tells the HAK-man, "The 2004 Helios Merlot is $28/bottle at the winery and the 2005 Helios Cabernet has yet to be released. (The 2003 Helios Cabernet is $32/bottle and nearly sold out, there was no 2004 Helios Cabernet- the vintage was too small.)"
(1:12 PM, 2/26/2009) [WINERY] cathycorison replies, "Judging by the way my wines age, I expect that they will be in a particularly pretty spot at around 10 years. The fun is watching them change- they're alive."
(1:51 PM, 2/26/2009) [WINERY] batucado jumps on in, "So, I'm the guy most of you have met behind the counter at the Corison tasting room. We usually pour one of the Helios wines every day, but I like to mix it up from time to time..."
(2:49 PM, 2/26/2009) [WINERY] cathycorison comments, "Surprisingly (and contrary to conventional wisdom), crop size is not the most important factor in the quality of a vintage. For me it’s the weather during the ripening season, from veraison (French term for the change from small, hard, green, photosynthesizing berries that are acting more like a leaf..."
(3:43 PM, 2/26/2009) kurtswa inquires, "Do the grapes used for these wines come from your estate or are these sourced grapes?"
(4:11 PM, 2/26/2009) [WINERY] cathycorison reports, "They are sourced (the only vineyard I own is the Kronos Vineyard and that has always made the grade and is a single-vineyard estate bottling. It is never on the table when I blend the Corison Cabernet). That said, I'm involved in the farming and I've sourced the same 3 vineyards for over 20 years."
(10:44 PM, 2/26/2009) burrnini is curious, "what is brix?"
(10:57 PM, 2/26/2009) [WINERY] cathycorison replies, "Brix is a unit of density that roughly correlates to % sugar in the must (crushed grapes). Fermentation is the conversion of sugar to alcohol by yeast, which are living organisms. The more sugar in the must, the higher..."
(11:06 PM, 2/26/2009) burrnini follows-up, "so does the different term account for the fact that some wines, dessert wines in particular, don't fully convert sugar to alcohol?"
(11:20 AM, 2/27/2009) [WINERY] cathycorison tells burnini, "Yes. Dessert wines are left with unfermented sugar, either by removing the yeast or sometimes the sugar is so high in the must that the yeast simply can't ferment it all. Both sugar and alcohol inhibit the yeast..."
(2:26 PM, 2/27/2009) INTLGerard wonders, "I think it is also appropriate to mention you’re involvement with the charitable and well recognized Lookout Ridge project. Do you plan to continue your participation with this in the future?"
(2:43 PM, 2/27/2009) [WINERY] cathycorison responds, "Yes. It is astonishing to me that the sale of one bottle of my wine can change someone's life so profoundly."
(4:20 PM, 2/27/2009) [LABRAT] ArcheDiver promises thorough updates tomorrow. Keep after 'im!

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Tattle

Feb 26, 2009 12:01 AM
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Corrado

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Corison Helios Label - Two Pack
$44.99 + $5 shipping
Condition: Red
Products:
1 2004 Helios Merlot
1 2005 Helios Cabernet Sauvignon

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Tattle

Feb 26, 2009 12:02 AM
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mgdsh

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Guessed correctly. In for 2. Would love to Lab rat I tried the Helios 100% 05 Cab Franc just last Saturday.

Edit: Nice... first sucker too

Favorites: Corison/Helios Cabs/Cab Franc, TyCaton Cab/TyTaniun & Field Blend, Roessler Pinots, Krupp Verasion Synchrony, Kent Rasmussen PS & Titus Lot 1

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Tattle

Feb 26, 2009 12:03 AM
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cheron98

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dangit, stupid mistyping password for paypal...

Yeah, they said that there'd be a Helios "very soon" to us. Right after we sampled the Cab Franc. But I'll take Cab & Merlot

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Tattle

Feb 26, 2009 12:04 AM
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MaskedMarvel

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Would've been 1stsuck3r, but went in for three on this one. Buy it, people. Do it three times....

My Main thang... Check it!

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Tattle

Feb 26, 2009 12:05 AM
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Cesare

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Awesome. Too bad no cab franc but I'll take it (3).
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Tattle

Feb 26, 2009 12:06 AM
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cheron98

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MaskedMarvel wrote:Would've been 1stsuck3r, but went in for three on this one. Buy it, people. Do it three times....

I'm only in for one, only because I just dropped ... a lot... over the past weekend. Much of that AT Corison For something y'all can't have. Neener!

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Tattle

Feb 26, 2009 12:06 AM
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PetiteSirah

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mgdsh wrote:Guessed correctly. In for 2. Would love to Lab rat I tried the Helios 100% 05 Cab Franc just last Saturday.

Edit: Nice... first sucker too

Wasn't that yummy? Too bad you didn't get to buy the EXTRA SPECIAL CORISON offering that us PSychos got. I'll go in for one of these tomorrow.

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Tattle

Feb 26, 2009 12:08 AM
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javadrinker

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This one sounds exciting. Definitely in for 1 (not yet) but I'll wait for some feedback from Cathy or the rats to see if I order 3 instead.

And the path to drunken poverty continues...

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Tattle

Feb 26, 2009 12:08 AM
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mlhelm

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Someone who's tried this: how does this compare to Cathy's other wines? Is the cab just as good as the "regular," but more of a "drink now" wine? Anyone had the merlot? Thanks in advance for the info. Going to take some convincing after going for 3 of the Kronos.

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Tattle

Feb 26, 2009 12:10 AM
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yumitori

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cheron98 wrote:
I'm only in for one, only because I just dropped ... a lot... over the past weekend. Much of that AT Corison For something y'all can't have. Neener!

Keep bragging. One of these days we're just all gonna show up at your front door and raid your cellar. Drunken wooters all over the place 'til all the good stuff is gone...

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Tattle

Feb 26, 2009 12:11 AM
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cheron98

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javadrinker wrote:This one sounds exciting. Definitely in for 1 (not yet) but I'll wait for some feedback from Cathy or the rats to see if I order 3 instead.

Well, THIS Cathy says Buy 3

And THIS Cathy is available for rattage.

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Tattle

Feb 26, 2009 12:12 AM
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cheron98

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yumitori wrote:Keep bragging. One of these days we're just all gonna show up at your front door and raid your cellar. Drunken wooters all over the place 'til all the good stuff is gone...

SWEET. That would be AWESOME. Just don't touch the 2004 Turley Hayne PS since that's for my nephew in 17 years.

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Tattle

Feb 26, 2009 12:12 AM
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aliengar0

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in for 2

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Tattle

Feb 26, 2009 12:14 AM
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