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		<title>Winemakers&#8217; favorite summer wines, part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What wine have you and your family been enjoying most during the recent warm weather—and what, if anything, do you serve it with? I’m most interested in the wine category or the variety since Winophilia users may not be able to find exactly the bottle you’re enjoying, but please name the specific example you’re drinking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winophilia.com/2010/09/04/winemakers-favorite-summer-wines-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Simple foods can make the best pairings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Wine:  Juslyn Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 1998 Somewhat earthy, with moderate acidity and soft, smooth tannins that frame the flavors of leather and spice complicated by hints of dried cranberry, blackcurrant and herbs. Long and lush at the end. The Dish: Fresh Pasta with Truffle Oil, Garlic and Herbs Wide linguini noodles provided a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winophilia.com/2010/09/02/simple-foods-can-make-the-best-pairings/</link>
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		<title>2009 Oro de Castilla Verdejo Rueda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why should you care? Known barely a decade ago for tired, often overoaked, rusty-looking white wines, Spain has become a rich source for lively whites. Most bracing are those from the country&#8217;s cooler, Atlantic-influenced northwest, especially from Rueda and Rías Baixas. In Rueda the verdejo variety rules, although the region has long been planted to sauvignon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winophilia.com/2010/09/01/2009-oro-de-castilla-verdejo-rueda/</link>
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		<title>2 cheap 2 serious?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has become an annual tradition:  Somewhere around halfway through my spring and summer tastings of Spanish wine I realize that a fair number of the inexpensive bottles I’m seeing more closely resemble serious, structured wines than the fruity, easygoing versions that I suspect most buyers are seeking in the $12-and-under range.  People in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winophilia.com/2010/08/30/2-cheap-2-serious/</link>
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		<title>2007: an enchanting vintage for Sauternes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As most serious winos know by now, especially those who follow the Bordeaux market, sweet wines from vintage 2009 have garnered mostly rave reviews. Numerous chateaus have raised their prices significantly, in line with many red wine producers in the greater Bordeaux area. But wine lovers with a yen for Sauternes would do well to take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winophilia.com/2010/08/28/2007-an-enchanting-vintage-for-sauternes/</link>
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		<title>Top sommeliers on their favorite beers, part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many sommeliers enjoy unwinding with a beer after a full workday spent talking about wine with clients, matching wines to dishes, tasting wine, drinking wine….wine, wine, wine. Can you tell us your favorite beer these days, and what you like about it? Don’t feel that it needs to be a high-falutin’ beer either; if your favorite place [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winophilia.com/2010/08/26/top-sommeliers-on-their-favorite-beers-part-2/</link>
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		<title>A saké primer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, I published tasting notes in the International Wine Cellar on a superb set of sakés imported by Vine Connections, an importer based in Sausalito, CA that also specializes in wines from Argentina.  As a preface to those notes, I offered a fairly detailed introduction to saké, covering such subjects as how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winophilia.com/2010/08/24/a-sake-primer/</link>
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		<title>2007 Spy Valley Wines Envoy Riesling Marlborough</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why should you care? New Zealand’s ocean-influenced climate—markedly cooler than that of its neighbor Australia—is ideal for the production of wines with intense fruit and crisp acidity. White wines, especially sauvignon blanc from Marlborough, dominate exports to the U.S. But the country’s rieslings are also varietally accurate and delicious. In spite of their normally brisk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winophilia.com/2010/08/23/2007-spy-valley-wines-envoy-riesling-marlborough/</link>
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		<title>Winemakers&#8217; favorite summer wines, part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For obvious reasons, I addressed the current Winemaker Roundtable question only to makers based in the northern hemisphere. But from the responses received, it&#8217;s quite possible that parts of Australia have enjoyed warmer weather during their winter than our own Northwest has experienced through much of this summer. What wine have you and your family been enjoying most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winophilia.com/2010/08/21/winemakers-favorite-summer-wines-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Spotlight on domestic rosé</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fact that rosé is a hot ticket these days is hardly news to winos who have strolled the aisles of their local shop or eyeballed a restaurant wine list recently. A decade ago pink wine was considered the height (nadir?) of bad wine taste, probably best exemplified by the sweet white zinfandels that flooded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winophilia.com/2010/08/19/focus-on-domestic-rose/</link>
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