[2][3] Upon moving to Napa, she started working in the tasting room at Sterling Vineyards and at a wine shop.
Part of the reasons the owners gave was because she was too short and they believed she could not work in the wine cellar.
As part of a larger pattern of sexism in the wine industry at the time,[5] many women worked in labs and weren't allowed to be winemakers.
Corison decided against working in the lab and in 1978 she persevered, applied again, and became an intern at Freemark Abbey.
The winery is located in St. Helena, California in a barn designed and orchestrated by Corison's husband, William Martin.
The Kronos and Sunbasket are estate wines, made from CCOF certified organic grapes.