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      <description>For people who love good wine></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The importance of solid matter (Free for all)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Why and how does wine make you hungry? I have a library of wine books, some of them written by me, and none of them provides an answer to this engrossing question, even though wine has long been prescribed as an appetite stimulant. I don't think it can simply be the alcohol. In my experience a gin.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Alice Waters honoured by the French (Nick on restaurants)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a201003121.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Alice Waters, the founder of Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California in 1971 and the passionate campaigner for local, sustainable and seasonal food, will be made a Chevalier du Legion d’Honneur by the French Consul General in San Francisco this Friday. It will be a quiet ceremony.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Win a Michelin dinner & champagne (Free for all)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a201003191.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Here's an intriguing idea. Piper Heidsieck, who sponsors the 30-year-old professional Sommelier of the Year competition in the UK is launching a competition to find the Amateur Sommelier of the Year - and you don't have to pour a drop! It's open to anyone outside the wine trade or sommelier.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Wine MBA Chronicle 1 (Inside information)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a201003182.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Laura Conway is a wine professional living in San Francisco who was Vinfolio's content manager and editor from 2004 until recently and is currently attending the Wine MBA hosted by the Bordeaux École de Management (BEM). This executive MBA programme consists of six two-and-a-half-week sessions.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Iconic bordeaux with Bill (Tasting articles)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a20100319.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ We finish our week devoted to Mature Bordeaux with an account of some of the most famous red bordeaux of the last century and some of their peers. The last time we stayed chez the late Bill Baker in the atmospheric West Country millhouse he shared with his wife Kate, children Polly and George and.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Latour and Pétrus  (Tasting articles)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a201003163.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The following notes were taken at a super-luxurious comparative tasting hosted by Christie's in London back in November 2005. I'm publishing them as part of my intention to beef up the number of reviews we offer of wines that are ready to drink or approaching drinkability. Frédéric Engerer of.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Gallo shut up shop (Inside information)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a201003171.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ E&amp;J Gallo's first and only public tasting room , located on the tourism yellow brick road that is the Healdsburg plaza in Sonoma County, shuttered last week, covering the windows with butcher paper and posting a sign on the door that said the company decided not to renew its lease, yet.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Georgia undaunted (Free for all)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a20100318.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Umay Çeviker, the Turkish architect I met on our visit to Turkey last May, told me that he made frequent trips to Georgia and had a particular interest in Georgian wine. (He also told me about President George W Bush Street, the name of the main road from the airport into the capital Tbilisi.) He.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[New owners for Vinfolio (Free for all)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a201003173.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Earlier today in Day of reckoning for Vinfolio I reported that founder and CEO Steve Bachmann had left and wondered what was next for the troubled San Francisco fine wine company. The following press release just in answers that question. It seems that Jean-Michel Valette MW and Jon Moramarco, ex.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Namedropping notebooks (Tasting articles)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a201003172.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Most of my tasting notes are taken at professional tastings, increasingly straight on to a laptop , e-notebook or even occasionally straight on to my Blackberry. But I do carry round paper notebooks like the one shown here so that I can take notes on particularly significant wines at social.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Day of reckoning for Vinfolio (Don't quote me)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a20100317.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Vinfolio looked so promising when it was founded in 2003, a glamorous one-stop provider of an increasing array or goods and services: fine wine, wine storage, online cellar management and wine information. It was based in San Francisco but was one of the first American operations to announce it.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Raúl Peréz, Ultreia St Jacques 2008 Bierzo (Wines of the week)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a201003162.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ From £11.99 and $25.99 Find this wine Bierzo has long been one of my favourite emerging/emerge Spanish wine regions. I particularly like the grape varieties from which its wines are typically made: Mencía for its fragrant, rather haunting reds and Godello for mineral-rich whites. The mineral.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A night in Panzano (Nick on restaurants)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a201003152.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The dinner menu at Le Café Anglais on Monday 8 Mar was headed A Night in Panzano. But the more frequently I looked around the packed dining room and took in some of the characters, the more I began to think that I was on the set of the Marx brothers' film 'A Night at The Opera.' There was, of.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mature and maturing bordeaux week (Free for all)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a20100316.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ I'm currrently trying to juggle appointments and tastings all over the left and right banks in the Gironde at the end of this month. &nbsp;As a run up to my tastings of the much-heralded 2009 vintage (see the extensive Blatch report ), we offer you a week of tasting notes on mature and maturing.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sixty years of Ch Figeac (Tasting articles)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a201003153.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Our second offer in this Older Bordeaux Week focuses on one of the most distinctive and traditional properties on the right bank. &nbsp;This magnificent vertical tasting took place over a dinner in the private room at Taillevent in Paris on 14 Dec 2007 to celebrate the secret of our host Thierry.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[La Mission and Haut-Brion (Tasting articles)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a201003151.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ We start our Older Bordeaux Week with a look at two of my favourite properties whose wines can offer so much savour, distinctive character and great balance. Last month I was lucky enough to attend a dinner at Quo Vadis in Soho, London organised by Bibendum Wine and designed to compare wines from.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Napa's moth quarantine (Inside information)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a20100314.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Contrary to some knee-jerk reports, the wine sky is not falling on Napa Valley, although a quarantine has been placed on a portion of its viticultural area in order to halt the spread of the European grapevine moth. The California Department of Food and Agriculture imposed the quarantine on a.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Last  weekend's bottles (Free for all)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a20100315.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ I am keenly aware of Purple pagers'&nbsp; thirst for reviews of more mature wines, as opposed to the thousands of reviews of young wines that are available on this site.&nbsp; As I explained recently&nbsp; in TNs - housekeeping announcement , I really am trying to get into the habit of entering.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the depths of Wiltshire (Nick on restaurants)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ I set off for The Beckford Arms, in the depths of Wiltshire, with two specific questions for its chef, Mark Blatchford, whose food I had always previously enjoyed in both London and New York. Why had he suddenly left the big smoke and what did he miss most in his new, more tranquil setting? The.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ridge - a California exception (Free for all)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a20100310.html</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ See full tasting notes on Purple pages . &nbsp; California wine can be frustrating for those of us who live outside the United States. Thanks to recent swollen crops and plummeting sales of California’s many ambitiously priced wines, there is a glut of good wine – much of it finding its way.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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