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	<title>The Best of Wines &#187; Russian River Valley</title>
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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>
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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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		<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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		<title>End of an Era: Williams Selyem Sells to a Discounter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 05:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bacchus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2008 Summerland Bien Nacido Solomon Hills Santa Maria Valley Exclusive Blend for LUXE Pinot Noir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2009 Domaine Perraud Macon Villages Vielle Vignes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2009 Jordan Russian River Chardonnay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2009 Louis Jadot Chateau des Jacques Moulin-a-Vent]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There it was. The Williams Selyem 2008 Russian River Valley Pinot Noir; three bottles for $150. I&#8217;m not saying this was the same as walking up to a Vegas casino and having Willie Mays or Joe Louis greet you. But&#8230;not far from it either. More like walking over to the jewelry counter at Target and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summertime wines&#8230;where&#8217;s the heat?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 06:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bacchus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2006 Suhr Luchtel Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2008 Castel di Salve Santi Medici Rosato]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2008 Uvaggio Lodi Vermentino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2009 Chateau de Puligny Montrachet Bourgogne Rosé de Pinot Noir]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weather has been fussier than a sommelier looking at a bottle of Two Buck Chuck a customer brought in. 90 degrees this week; 60 the next. Perfect Spring weather in the mid-70s last week then drizzling today. Late Spring should be when you put together Ros√©s and bright acidic fun White wines for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hawaiian Wine Country&#8230;That&#8217;s Right&#8230;Making Wine in Kauai</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 07:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bacchus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aunty Angeline's Kauai Lomi Lomi Massage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nani Moon Pineapple & Guava Sunset]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the rain. The wettest spot on earth is on the north shore of Kauai. We were sleeping in anyway which left plenty of time to explore the populated east shore including a home grown spa located in a Hawaiian Homestead neighborhood and a &#8220;Kauai winery&#8221;. Aunty Angeline&#8217;s Kauai Lomi Lomi Massage is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zuma Beach Paradiso: Church Estate Vineyards = Auberge de Soleil in the &#8216;Bu</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bacchus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should you ever meet Robert Haggstrom Church -¬†owner of Church Estate Vineyards &#8211; you will be struck by how plain folk he seems to be. After a couple hours sipping wine and lunching on his terrace, checking out his spectacular wine cellar, and listening to his views about making wine, quotes by Hunter S. Thompson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Super Bowl: Game Tops Wines in a Close One</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bacchus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ed. everything RIGHT with the Super Bowl in one image] For the third year in a row the Super Bowl presented a pretty good football game that managed to outshine the wine selections. We usually expect the wine selections for a Super Bowl to be slightly more entertaining than the game. The whole mishpokhe surrounding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fall Classics: (X)Yankee baseball, Pac 9 football and Pinot Noir</title>
		<link>http://thebestofwines.com/wine-grapes/pinot-noir/fall-classics-xyankee-baseball-pac-9-football-and-pinot-noir-154?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fall-classics-xyankee-baseball-pac-9-football-and-pinot-noir</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bacchus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fall in LA is the best time of year. Fall in LA means it is safe to go outside without fearing a microwave burn. The tarantulas and rattlesnakes have left the patio to the hounds. [ed. real-Yankee Derek Jeter likes to have a little Halloween fun this time of year] I can watch TV outside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer evenings. Warm bodies. Temp controlled wines.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bacchus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LA the city as brasserie. Flames fan the hills. Corks get pulled. Once for Dotor√©&#8217;s 60th. Again for RB&#8217;s departure. Friends mix, barely familiar. Zins and Cabs here. Pinot Noirs there. Fruity whites cross all snob lines. Wine greases the wheels. Everyone loosens up. Even the tighties. Almost everyone. Birthday boy pulls the cork on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unchartered (sic) wine waters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bacchus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to Pinot Noir we are entering unchartered territory, if you will, irregardless of goodness of fit. Pinot Noir, like &#8220;common&#8221; language, is becoming absurdly stylized and impossible to understand. In the attempt to create individually expressive Pinot Noir wines that can win big Parker Points, a phalanx of PN wines has emerged [...]]]></description>
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