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		<title>Wine Flaws: Corked?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wine Spectator&#8217;s James Laube explains what a &#8220;corked&#8221; bottle of wine is in the below excerpt from its extensive website.  Learning to identify a corked bottle of wine comes with some experience, but once you are able to identify the signs and smell of cork taint you will be able to identify it when it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wine as Gift, &#8220;The Pleasure Principle in Wine Giving&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Pleasure Principle in Wine Giving,&#8221; an article from a recent issue of the LA Times.  
Discussing wine as gifts &#8211; both business and personal, the stigma of price, and an &#8220;obligation towards deliciousness.&#8221;
Today is the last day for shipping using our standard 2 Day Shipping Rate ($9.50 flat) to arrive by Christmas.
As you look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Primitivo?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend I brought a bottle of our 2005 Primitivo to one of Santa Barbara&#8217;s oldest Italian restaurants, Arnoldi&#8217;s.  All of my friends were busy chatting, but the focus immediately turned to the wine once everybody took their first sips.  Declaring it a Santa Barbara Winery favorite took less than two minutes, but they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pinot Passport Recap</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joanie Hudson writes in the Pierre Lafond Wine Bistro Blog:
Last night&#8217;s Pinot Noir tasting provided an exciting look as to what the world of that varietal has to offer, literally. Taking samples from four distinct regions, and presenting them side by side is a lesson on wine that you can&#8217;t get from any amount of [...]]]></description>
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