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GlenLyon Winery was first built
as a storage barn in 1987 by Squire and Suzy after their move to
Glen Ellen to store (believe it or not) a bunch of theatre equipment:
lighting instruments, theatre seats, electrical boxes and cables,
drapes, props and costumes. (It’s a very long story....)
After the Year-of-the-Theatre-Fiasco, that storage
barn space was used to make our first “Garage Wine”.
Slowly but surely over the next fifteen years, that 24x36 facility
grew four times its initial size into a State-of-the-Art Winery.
From the moment the massive winery doors are opened
and the just-harvested grapes are brought in, each piece of spotless
equipment serves a purpose. From the bin dumper/sorting tray, to
the adjustable-roller destemmer, to the three 971 gallon, open-top
fermentation tanks, to the bladder press, to the temperature/humidity
controlled barrel room, everything has been customized, designed
and built for GlenLyon. (To her chagrin, Suzy’s last Valentine’s
Day present was a beautiful sanitizing, stainless Ozone Machine...and
her last Anniversary Gift was a nifty new stainless press-catch
basin....)
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GlenLyon's Oak Barrels and Steel Tanks
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