EPISODE # 28 CORRY CRAIGHILL/SEPTENARY WINERY & ASHLEIGH WHITE/GLEN MANOR VINEYARDS

Fine Wine Confidential Podcast

Both Corry Craighill & Ashleigh White have had an interesting start to their careers in the wine industry. Corry has made wine all over the world and Ashleigh has worked on the West Coast and the East Coast of this country.
While Ashleigh had the good fortune to have her uncle, Jeff White turn the family farm into a vineyard, thus providing her with an opportunity to take a shot at winegrowing-- Corry started by working in the tasting room at Jefferson Vineyards for her first taste of what the wine industry is about. In my opinion they both have years of success ahead of them and I am sure will make a positive contribution to the future of winegrowing in Virginia.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE INTERVIEW:
a). Corry details the early start to her career when she worked in the cellar or vineyard at Blenheim Vineyards, in Australia, where she says because of the size of the operation she hated it. In South Africa and after that back to Blenheim, then Oregon and Central Coast of California. worked with Michael Shaps and even did a brief stint in Burgundy. All of this at a fairly young age.
b). Ashleigh describes working in California in the Central Coast with Raj Parr and Sashi Moorman, and then back to the vineyards and cellar at Glen Manor Vineyards. While she never intended this to be her career path, she is loving it and is all in.
c). Corry is voted winemaker of the year in Loudoun County in 2019 when she was at Sunset Hills and then takes the position at Septenary and leaves Loudoun for the Monticello AVA and Charlottesville.
d). Both Ashleigh & Corry offer their opinions on the present and future of Virginia wines and provide an interesting perspective from the younger generation.
Much, much, more. Check it out by listening the the Episode or read the Transcript.

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