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	<title>Phd Wine Education</title>
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	<description>Learn All About Wine >> Tasting >> Investments >> Education</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>30 Second Wine Advisor: Old-fashioned Zin</title>
		<link>http://phdwine.com/2008/07/23/30-second-wine-advisor-old-fashioned-zin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So many modern Zinfandels are ramped up with high-octane, almost liquorish intensity that they&#8217;ve come to seem more like a cocktail than an accompaniment with dinner for me. With a few glorious exceptions.
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		<title>Wine Reports: Pedroncelli 2005 Dry Creek Valley Sonoma County &#8220;Mother Clone&#8221; Zinfandel ($17)</title>
		<link>http://phdwine.com/2008/07/23/wine-reports-pedroncelli-2005-dry-creek-valley-sonoma-county-mother-clone-zinfandel-17/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a big boy, but the clean, fresh and exuberant expression of &#8220;bramble&#8221; berry fruit takes me back to Zin the way it used to be.
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		<title>Breaking Wine News: Bordeaux&#8217;s Cos d&#8217;Estournel Buys Napa&#8217;s Chateau Montelena</title>
		<link>http://phdwine.com/2008/07/22/breaking-wine-news-bordeauxs-cos-destournel-buys-napas-chateau-montelena/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[To those of you in the wine world paying attention to the dollar&#8217;s stomach churning lows against the Euro, this news may come as little or no surprise.  This morning, Chateau Cos d&#8217;Estournel announced it&#8217;s purchase of the historic Chateau Montelena in Napa.  While not the first bit of investment from Bordeaux in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vérité Wines, Sonoma: Current Releases</title>
		<link>http://phdwine.com/2008/07/22/verite-wines-sonoma-current-releases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Formulaic is an adjective that is often leveled at some of California&#8217;s top boutique wines and their winemaking.  As if when you finally manage to afford all the components required to make a high-end wine, that somehow you just throw them together and, &#8220;poof&#8221; you&#8217;ve got yourself a $300, 94 point superstar.
This stereotype is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>30 Second Wine Advisor: Screwcaps turn to pricey wine</title>
		<link>http://phdwine.com/2008/07/21/30-second-wine-advisor-screwcaps-turn-to-pricey-wine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With few exceptions, as the metal screwcap gained traction in the fine-wine world, they were associated with less expensive wines. But that&#8217;s changing.
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		<title>Where Vinography Gets Read Around the World</title>
		<link>http://phdwine.com/2008/07/21/where-vinography-gets-read-around-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://phdwine.com/2008/07/21/where-vinography-gets-read-around-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t get a lot of reader requests for me to write specific articles here on Vinography, but a series of e-mail conversations with a reader today led to a request that I publish some information about where my other readers come from.
This particular reader was in Hong Kong and was proud of being part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2006 Baker Lane &#8220;Hurst Vineyard&#8221; Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast</title>
		<link>http://phdwine.com/2008/07/20/2006-baker-lane-hurst-vineyard-pinot-noir-sonoma-coast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Wine Talk</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some people seem to get into the wine business through sheer determination. After years of saving, scraping, dreaming and planning, vineyard or winery ownership is the fulfillment of many people&#8217;s long held (if not hard earned) fantasies.
And then there are those people who somehow seem destined for it &#8212; people whose stories you hear and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That Smoky 2008 Vintage: California Wine and Wildfires</title>
		<link>http://phdwine.com/2008/07/19/that-smoky-2008-vintage-california-wine-and-wildfires/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There were a few weeks in June when the last place a wine lover would have wanted to be was the ordinarily idyllic Napa Valley.  A thick haze of blue-gray smoke hung in the air, as if the San Francisco summer fog had crept north and picked up every bit of car exhaust along [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vinography Images: The Tinsel Vineyard</title>
		<link>http://phdwine.com/2008/07/19/vinography-images-the-tinsel-vineyard/</link>
		<comments>http://phdwine.com/2008/07/19/vinography-images-the-tinsel-vineyard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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The Tinsel Vineyard&#8220;One of the things I really enjoy about Michael&#8217;s approach to Vineyard photography has to do with his willingness to avoid the traditional ways of looking at a vineyard in favor of the unexpected.  Sometimes the vineyard almost becomes a minor detail in the overall landscape, but we are nonetheless drawn to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>30 Second Wine Advisor: Screwcap protects freshness?</title>
		<link>http://phdwine.com/2008/07/18/30-second-wine-advisor-screwcap-protects-freshness/</link>
		<comments>http://phdwine.com/2008/07/18/30-second-wine-advisor-screwcap-protects-freshness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was irritated at first when a wine shop sold me a potentially stale bottle, but the sturdy screwcap offered an opportunity for an interesting experiment.
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