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		<title>Garagiste Spell Casting and Sleight of Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bacchus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And now you are getting very sleepy. Listen to my voice. Read my careful prose. I want you to type I-will-take-one-case. Hit send. When I snap my fingers you will awake fully refreshed and remember nothing other than how much you NEED Garagiste. SNAP! Jon Rimmerman of Garagiste is the MOST POWERFUL WINE WRITER today. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mystery of Burgundy Strikes Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bacchus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Burgundy and Barolo are possibly the greatest red wines and certainly the most vexing. When they are great they are the BEST OF WINES. And when they are not ready they can produce more frustration than a Fox news host getting philosophical. Here is the Burgundy dilemma. They are rarely bad wines&#8230;with exceptions and we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cradle of Civilization Tasting on a Friday in January</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bacchus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2008 Zafeirakis Limniona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 Kir Yianni Petra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 Mylonas Assytriko Roditis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dionysus called and tBoW heard. We opened the email from our local wine retailer Woodland Hills Wine Company titled &#8220;Greek Night.&#8221; The thought there was wine to be tasted from Greece was enough to get our attention. We take WHWC events seriously. They never pierce the vinous veil between plonk and genuine oenophile worthy quaffesence. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The BEST underground wine newsletter? The Underground Wine Letter!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bacchus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cabernet Franc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carneros]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grenache]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Napa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rhone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St Joseph]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We started &#8220;tasting wine&#8221; in 1978. We frequented a wine shop in West LA up the street from the Wine House which had recently opened. The shop was located in a bungalow that was once somebody&#8217;s home on Cotner. It was the outlet store for The Wine Merchant owned by Dennis Overstreet and located in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chipmunks &amp; Lasagna Chase Wine Thoroughbreds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bacchus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barolo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chablis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Grenache]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mosel-Saar-Ruwer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mourvedre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nebbiolo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northern Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pfalz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Piemonte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pinot Noir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Port]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portugal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[2007 Reichsrat Von Buhl Armand Riesling Kabinett]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ME..I WANT A HULA HOOP! Fortunately, Alvin did not help select the offerings of the day-long tBoW Open House. Dotoré and REL were first to arrive and nearly last to leave eight hours later. tBoW team tasters filled the front lines as veterans retreated for fresh glasses. All indulged enthusiastically on Christmas lasagna and an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tis the Season to Be Jolly: BEST Holiday Fotos &amp; Garagiste Scorecard</title>
		<link>http://thebestofwines.com/wine-regions/languedoc/tis-the-season-to-be-jolly-best-holiday-fotos-garagiste-scorecard-4630?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tis-the-season-to-be-jolly-best-holiday-fotos-garagiste-scorecard</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bacchus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carignane]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[009 Debray Bourgogne Hautes Cotes de Beaune]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh my gosh my golly. Took a trip to San Francisco (don&#8217;t call it Frisco) after the winds had purified the air and it was just cold enough to keep it all crispy. Here are favorite shots and a couple of wine reviews, too. Sausalito is too touristy for some. You will hear languages other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hooked on Garagiste!! BEST Online Retailer in 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bacchus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a story about a descent into wine madness albeit mild madness, we think. You be the judge. A conspiracy of circumstance and opportunity when everything just happened to fall into place at the same time. Kris-B introduced tBoW to Garagiste in January 2011. We looked. We read. We dipped. The first order was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Grand Old Party of Second String Wines</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bacchus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politics and wine do not go together. Like discussing religious views with dinner guests. Unless everybody agrees. We know there are those who will disagree with characterizing the set of wines below as second and third string, less than top rung, much like the current GOP field of candidates. The wines reviewed in this post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tortured Wine and Fan Appreciation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bacchus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sins of Wine and Truth in Tasting was never more apparent than recently when we pulled the corks on two big tickets and a super cheapie. Fall cellar purging is in full force as Dotoré realizes he is in danger of ending up in Wine Hell for his many sins. Here is the down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vegas! Elvis!! Other almost forgotten pleasures.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bacchus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[1993 Araujo Eisele VIneyard Cabernet Sauvignon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1999 Williams Selyem Allen Vineyard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2006 Tenute Detorri Renosu Romangia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2009 Navarro Gewurtztraminer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 Tatomer Kick-On Ranch and Vandenberg Riesling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Somebody else is always getting married in Las Vegas. As good a reason as any to visit this forsaken cultural desert in a desert. There used to be two primary distractions in Vegas: gambling, aka gaming, and S-E-X. From a distance we observed that both industries are still alive and thriving. We could have used [...]]]></description>
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