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		<title>Paired up for Valentine&#8217;s Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just returned from a Valentine&#8217;s Day tasting at Viansa in Sonoma, and I&#8217;m happy to report that we learned something.
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We paired three wines with chocolate desserts, including chocolate-covered strawberries, kiwi, and banana, plus biscotti and a couple of wine-flavored chocolate sauces. While we were especially fond of Viansa&#8217;s &#8220;Prindelo&#8221; 2006 (a blend of red Italian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please Ban &#8220;Buckie&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times ran a disturbing article on Buckfast Tonic Wine, an appalling-sounding brew of fermented grapes, sugar, and caffeine that&#8217;s being blamed for a national crisis of highly-wired inebriation in Scotland. The government is considering controlling the vile substance, but local fans are responding with protests to the theme of &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ban Buckie!&#8221;
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If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winegirlonline.com/2010/02/12/please-ban-buckie/</link>
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		<title>The Burgundy of Italy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just read Neal Rosenthal&#8217;s Reflections of a Wine Merchant, in which the importer &#8212; who is well-known by his fans to be a master of the geographical intricacies of French Burgundy &#8212; confesses that he learned from Barolo to appreciate the influence of the land on wine. So it was Barolo, not Burgundy, that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winegirlonline.com/2010/01/28/the-burgundy-of-italy/</link>
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		<title>How to Order Wine in Paris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The best bottle of our whole trip to Paris was a 2005 Rouquetaillade La Grange &#8212; and I am ashamed to say that I didn&#8217;t order it. In fact, my poor traveling companions had got so disgusted with my selections that on day four my dear friend Mark (and thank goodness he is still my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winegirlonline.com/2010/01/21/how-to-order-wine-in-paris/</link>
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		<title>In Memoriam: Erin Findlay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t written since July, but I have a good excuse: on July 19 my mother &#8212; who, although she was not a connoisseur, loved wine and helped trigger my development as a student of wine &#8212; was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. As a result I&#8217;ve spent the last five plus months fighting, caretaking, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winegirlonline.com/2010/01/18/in-memoriam-erin-findlay/</link>
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		<title>Yes We Cairanne</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent trip to France convinced me that, ironically, the best place to drink French wine nowadays is in California. Let me give you an example: a red wine from Cairanne in  the Southern Rhône, a 2007 Côte du Rhône Villages from Domaine Catherine le Goeuil, which I bought at Kermit Lynch Wines in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winegirlonline.com/2009/08/22/yes-we-cairanne/</link>
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		<title>Varietal Smack-Down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night the Ladies Tasting Society met to blind-taste five red varietals, that is, wines made primarily from, and named after, one grape variety (for example pinot noir or cabernet sauvignon). It was an exciting and highly competitive tasting, since not only did the ladies score ourselves based on how many aspects of the wine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winegirlonline.com/2009/06/11/varietal-smack-down/</link>
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		<title>A Mixologist is Born</title>
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With the exception of an occasional mimosa &#8212; and only when the sparkler destined for adulteration isn&#8217;t one of my favorites &#8212; I&#8217;ve never been much of a wine-cocktail drinker. Oh, and then there&#8217;s the sangría we serve every year at our Fourth of July pool party (again, made with zinfandel of a quality that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winegirlonline.com/2009/06/08/a-mixologist-is-born/</link>
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		<title>Rhônes Gone White</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Used to be that when one heard &#8220;Rhône,&#8221; one thought, &#8220;red.&#8221; That&#8217;s because 90 percent of the wine that comes from France&#8217;s Rhône River valley &#8212; and all the really famous stuff, like Côte Rotie &#8212; is indeed red. Châteauneuf du Pape, although it can come &#8220;blanc,&#8221; is hardly ever seen in stores or on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winegirlonline.com/2009/05/15/rhones-gone-white/</link>
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		<title>Up Dry Creek, Even Further</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite the attacks waged by Wine Dictator magazine on poor Dry Creek Valley, after visiting 10 standout Dry Creek producers a couple weeks ago during their Passport party weekend, I remain thoroughly charmed. Although the chief California editor believes Dry Creek lacks a signature varietal, I think it&#8217;s clearly zinfandel&#8211;in fact, two zins and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winegirlonline.com/2009/05/11/up-dry-creek-even-further/</link>
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