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		<title>Women and Wine: What a Great Combination!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 22:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Penny and I attended the Women for WineSense Conference at the Robert Mondavi Vineyards in Oakville, California. What a great event that combined the best of the Napa wines with the best of women participants, all great lovers of wine. Penny of course was our representative for the NapaandBordeaux wines, (LATERALITE GAUCHE and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pebble Beach Food and Wine Festival: A Great Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From April 12 to 15, 2012 I attended the Pebble Beach Food and Wine Festival. What a great experience! Probably the best part of this festival was meeting such an array of impressive people from the wine and gourmet food industry.  Click on the link below to see some of the photos of the event. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Bordeaux is a Great Wine: A Paradigm to be Emulated</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading the article published in the &#8220;Cooking and Eating&#8221; section of the Wall Street Journal titled &#8221; Making the Mondavi Legacy New Again&#8221; (&#8220;On Wine&#8221;, by Jay McInerney, March 24-25, 2012).  An enjoyable article that shows very neatly  why the Mondavi story is so emblematic of Napa&#8217;s winemaking history. After a trip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Essence of Our New Wine Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 03:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stupefying Descriptions for Wine? While reading a book I stumbled across the author’s words ‘incoherent “stupefying descriptions”’. How accurately it describes those “classic” descriptions about a particular wine. The description leads me off the wrong trail tempting me to try and recognized the array of flavors. I feel taunted by the knowledge that I probably won’t even get close to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Bordeaux Vintage Astonished Tasters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Vintage 2010, some facts And then there was the 2010. 2008 was excellent in Bordeaux. The vintage 2009 was outstanding and couldn&#8217;t be beaten. And now the 2010 astonished tasters at the En Primeur tastings where the newborn vintage was presented to the international press and trade. I must say, I was astonished myself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outstanding First Growth Bordeaux Wines</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 04:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really like the wines selected for evaluation and the points awarded by the Bordeaux Wine Experience to these 2010 First Growth Bordeaux Wine 2010 First Growths: my verdict Chateau Lafite Rothschild Ronald and Decanter Magazine&#8217;s Steven Spurrier (R) agree while tasting First Growth Lafite Rothschild: &#8220;How can one not give 20 points to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outstanding 2010 Bordeaux Wines</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This confirms what our palates told us in our recent tasting of our wines in Bordeaux: the 2010 vintage is outstanding! Thanks to my contacts in LinkedIn, I have connected with a new friend, Ronald Rens, M. Sc., Wine Master Wine writer and President The Bordeaux Wine Experience, who is a great exponent of what is happening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Elusive Great Grape</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is a Journey? What is a journey? Will you respond like Webster’s dictionary-“an act of going from one place to another”..? Usually a familiar word creates a familiar response yet I posit that journey can be defined more broadly. I did travel from one place to another, drive a specific route, walk along a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starting a New Wine Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Wine: Your Social Networking Tool Since wine will be your social networking tool, we will invite you to share our wines after their release. You will be the “Parkers”, the “Wine Advocates” and the “Wine Enthusiasts”. Create your own point system. Your opinions will be sacred to us. Our wine labels list the current blend of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Wines are Doing Great! Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How is our wine doing? Our wine continues to age as separate components in the french-oak barrels that we chose in Bordeaux.  All of our wine components finished their malolactic conversion last winter (in late 2010).   Since  that time our wine has been racked  three to four times in 2011 (some barrels are getting their forth [...]]]></description>
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