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		<title>Central Coast Wine Symposium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow, March 18, I am attending a Central Coast Wine Symposium in San Luis Obispo.
The Central Coast Insights Program
Priorities for the New Decade: The Importance of the Central Coast to the California Wine Industry
Program* Thursday, March 18, 2010  (8am-5pm)
WINE INDUSTRY OVERVIEW
THE BUSINESS OF CHANGE
WINEGROWERS WHO BECOME WINEMAKERS: IS IT WORKING?
NETWORKING BREAK
RECESSIONARY TIMES AND THE LENDING MARKETS
NETWORKING LUNCHEON
SOCIAL MEDIA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>View of Vineyard 03.16.10 and Watercolor Artist Jan French&#8217;s interpretation for our Santa Barbara Winery Label</title>
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		<title>The Bottling Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was the first day of bottling season. About 6 months, not of constant bottling, but 6 months of readying the wine, stabilizing it, filtering it when necessary and bottling. Not very glamorous but as the winemaker says, &#8216;we need to make room for the 2010 vintage&#8217;.
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		<title>The Henry Wine Group CA Trade Tastings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next week I will be traveling throughout California attending The Henry Wine Group Trade Tastings.  Our wine is distributed in California by The Henry Wine Group, and these tastings provide the opportunity to visit and engage three different markets: San Francisco (March 22), San Diego (March 24), and Los Angeles (March 25). 
These tastings are organized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bottling Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow we begin bottling of a selection of 2008 and 2009 wines.  Across the street, where our bottling line is, I hear the clanking of glass being run through the machine as Bruce is doing some test runs today and getting everything ready to go for tomorrow.  We have our own bottling line built into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pinot Noir bud 3/12/10 (click image to enlarge)</title>
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