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		<title>Wine Punting Demo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Croatia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Donald Edwards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a recent wine trip to the beautiful region of Istria in Croatia, fellow wine blogger Donald Edwards, showed us the art of Wine Punting:  drinking wine out of the punt of an empty wine bottle. Always up for anything, Joe Wadsack joined in and so did winemaker of Roxanich wines, Mladen Rozanic &#8211; not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World&#8217;s Most Talented Winemaker!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 09:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naked Wines is without doubt one of the most innovative retailers in the UK (they&#8217;ve won awards to prove it).  They recently introduced their most ambitious competition to date: #ZerotoHero with the goal of &#8220;Unearthing the world’s most talented, undiscovered winemakers&#8221; &#8211; a big task for sure! Over 6 months, 6 tastings, covering 6 winemaking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Wine that&#8217;s Got Talent!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 18:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[learn about wine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Semillon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Try New Wines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Idol]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jascots]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may not know this about me, but I&#8217;m a sucker for singing and talent competitions &#8211; X Factor, American Idol, the Voice UK, Britain&#8217;s Got Talent &#8211; I love them all (and thanks, perhaps, to Simon Cowell&#8217;s genius, it seems there is one or more of these shows on television in the UK 365 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Non-Vintage Champagne</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 10:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Champagne]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[how Champagne is made]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacquart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacquart Champagne]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Champagne! In success you deserve it; in defeat you need it&#8221; ~ Winston Churchill. There is no doubt in my mind that there’s magic in a glass of Champagne.  My belief was strengthened recently at a dinner hosted by Jacquart Champagne where we delved into the intricacies of creating the ‘house-style’ Non-Vintage blend. Each year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italian Wine from Piedmont: Michele Chiarlo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very fortunate to be invited to lots of lovely dinners and fun wine events, but it&#8217;s not very often that they come to me! That&#8217;s what happened yesterday when a good friend and former colleague brought a visiting wine producer round to the flat for a tasting.  The visit reminded me of some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Off the Mark at Mark&#8217;s &amp; Spencer&#8217;s Spring Wine Tasting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Wine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wine Shops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hahn Winery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week was Marks &#38; Spencer&#8217;s Spring tasting for wine educators and bloggers.  I&#8217;m a big fan of M&#38;S &#8211; their food is great (a favourite is the orzo pasta &#38; roasted tomatoes with basil vinaigrette) &#8211; their stores are well-organized and the people are friendly.  The fact they do so many things well, has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oddbins: Back on Track</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wine Passionista</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wine Shops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ana Sapungiu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Casa Lluch Verdil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Esprit de Beaucastel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heartland Dolcetto Lagrein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[name your price]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oveja Negra Sauvigon Blanc-Carmenere]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a tumultuous year in 2011 that included briefly going into administration before 36 stores were snatched up by the EFB Group, Oddbins is making a comeback in 2012. It&#8217;s always sad when wine shops go out of business because it means less choice for wine lovers, so very happy in the fact that Oddbins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blind Wine Tastings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wine Passionista</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[learn about wine]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[BlindMondays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Wine Challenge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blind wine tasting &#8211; don&#8217;t let anyone tell you it&#8217;s easy because it isn&#8217;t! There are definitely good reasons for tasting wines blind and when done under proper conditions, the results can be very interesting and useful.  However, other times, like the tasting I attended last night, can serve simply as abject self-humiliation &#8211; but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Koshu wine from Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jancis Robinson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Japanese wine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New to you?  Me too! I recently attended a tutored tasting led by two Masters of Wine, Jancis Robinson and Lynne Sheriff, where we tasted 10 wines, including 1 sparkling, all made from the grape variety Koshu. Koshu is a white grape variety that is grown in the Yamanashi region of Japan and it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lot18 Arrives in the UK</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Philip James]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quo Vadis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wine Chap]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After much anticipation Lot18 has arrived in the UK.  Since their launch in the US in 2010, this members-only online wine marketplace has made huge strides and already has over 800,000 members in the States and 120,000 in France where they launched just two months ago. This week, the UK is the next region to [...]]]></description>
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