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      <description>For people who love good wine></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Year in the Vines - Part 14 (Inside information)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a20081119.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Three months have now passed since I started as a vineyard worker at Gusbourne Estate. During those months I have rubbed buds, wound wires, blown leaves, tied vines, knifed nets, and even gathered grapes. Sometimes it has been sunny and fair, sometimes decidedly not so. However, two things remain.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[France worries (Free for all)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Over the first eight months of 2008, international exports of French wine decreased by 10% in volume, so perhaps it's good news that the French ministry of agriculture is forecasting a drop of around 15% in yields for the 2008 harvest. Well it would be good news if that drop were at the lower end.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ancient sticky tasting notes (Tasting articles)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ I don’t often post tasting notes on wines that are more than a century old here but below are descriptions of no fewer than six centenarian wines from an extraordinary source that is just beginning to emerge on the international (and Australian) marketplace. Yalumba’s UK importers Negociants.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[50 wines from Berry Bros (Tasting articles)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a200811164.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ There were some very serious and well-made wines here – quite a change from the mass-market retailers. None of the wines is cheap and a few are overpriced, but they are generally satisfying. They were obviously pleased to have wrested Castello di Ama in Chianti Classico from Armit. We were.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Rhône 2007 - from the spittoon (Don't quote me)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a20081120.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Just a few quick observations between tastings - many of them of a range of 2007 Rhônes. The north seems very much more varied than the south, with an almost mind-boggling array of styles in the north, from unreconstructed winemaking reminiscent of the 1960s to super-flash polish. That said,.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Majestic's new fine wines (Tasting articles)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a200811185.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Below are notes on some top-quality wines that are actually ready to drink, and available to British wine lovers by the single bottle – admittedly provided another 11 are bought. Majestic wine warehouses in the UK may have reported less brilliant financial results recently (see here ) but they.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Klinger on Piemonte updated (Travel tips)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a200811141.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Willi Klinger was Angelo Gaja’s right hand man from 2000 to 2006. Here are his most memorable restaurants in the Langhe region of Piedmont, updates from the previous edition of this list in pink. I really enjoyed travelling around the globe for Angelo Gaja. But it was in the Langhe hills around.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Majestic's regular range (Tasting articles)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a200811162.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Mel Jones, currently working on her Master of Wine dissertation, gives us her impressions of 54 of the wines from the main range that Britain’s Majestic chose to show off to the press this season. Wines are listed in the order they were shown. See Majestic’s usual schemes to offer its.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dom du Joncier, Le Classique 2006 Lirac Rouge (Wines of the week)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a200811183.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ From £6.83, €10, Can$19.99 and $22.25 Find this wine I’m highlighting this hugely appealing, well-distributed southern Rhône red because, of use to many British wine lovers at least, it is currently on special offer at 192 Waitrose supermarkets, down from £8.99 to £7.19 a bottle until 2.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Corrigan arrives in Mayfair (Nick on food)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a20081117.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Richard Corrigan (seen here in his younger days at The Lindsay House, Soho) has just opened Corrigan’s Mayfair and, fortunately, the food is a lot less confusing than the location. For those with a long memory, the restaurant is in the site formerly occupied by Chez Nico, of Nico Ladenis fame,.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Acker's second HK outing (Inside information)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a20081118.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The results from Acker Merrall &amp; Condit’s recent auction previewed here , contrast somewhat with their first attempt to capitalise on Hong Kong’s burgeoning fine wine market. Their press release crows proudly about some doom-defiant bidding seen during the sale which took place at the.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Swig's Italian tasting in London (Inside information)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a200811172.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ London wine merchant Swig , who sell 'artisan wines from around the world', has invited purple pagers to a walk-around tasting of '30 very special Italian wines' selected from the Best 100 Wines of Italy 2009 Guide with authors Massimo Comparini and Derek Smedley MW - including 6 of the top 7.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Volumes down at the 148th Hospices auction (Free for all)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The lowest number of barrels in 21 years went on sale at the Hospices de Beaune auction yesterday and prices for red wines were dramatically lower than last year. This year's total of 544 barrels of the Hospices' 2008 burgundy compares with 607 last year (-10,4%), 680 in 2006 and 789 in 2005..]]></description>
        <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sundial wines of the Mosel (Tasting articles)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a200811161.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Wehlener Sonnenuhr is one of the Mosel’s most famous vineyards and its spoils are shared by a number of outstanding producers. What unites many of the top sites along the river is also what divides them – a unique individuality of terroir not shared by any of the other 520 plus vineyards.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Great new London wine bar/restaurant (Free for all)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a20081116.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ While Nick was in Boston speaking to a group of leading hoteliers, our son suggested we console ourselves at Terroirs, a brand new very wine-minded establishment just opposite Charing Cross, on a site puzzlingly vacated by a Davys wine bar, The Tappit Hen. I say puzzling because this is surely an.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Copia - the continuing saga (Free for all)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a20081114.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Copia, the downtown Napa food and wine showcase built with $20 million in seed money from Robert Mondavi, yet now mired in deep debt, will build a second campus in San Francisco in an attempt to draw more tourists to its programmes. Garry McGuire, president/chief executive officer of non-profit.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Gary, the arch Vayniac (Free for all)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a20081108.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Twenty-two years ago I was the first British journalist to write about an American wine critic called Robert M Parker Jr. Today I bring you a completely new American force in wine communication. For someone so self-avowedly wedded to new media Gary Vaynerchuk was surprisingly difficult to contact..]]></description>
        <pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Elettaria - New York Indian (Nick on food)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a20081112.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Although the contents of the menu at Elettaria, the Indian-influenced restaurant opened by chef Akhtar Nawab and two partners earlier this year in New York’s West Village, are highly impressive, the menu itself could not be less convenient for restaurant reviewers. It is nothing less than a.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How influential are wine writers? (Free for all)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a200811132.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Is there any point in all the words and opinion we wine commentators churn out? Do wine buyers take a blind bit of notice? Wine Intelligence is a UK-based market research consultancy specialising in the wine business which regularly undertakes surveys to draw attention to their work. A press.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Jaboulet on 2007 (Videos/Podcasts)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Here's what the Jaboulet team we saw here yesterday talking about the exceptionally wet 2008 vintage have to say about 2007 in the northen Rhône, and about what might happen to prices. I plan to publish a major collection of tasting notes on the 2007 Rhônes (much more consistent in the south.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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