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		<title>Why is Wine Different from Toilet Paper?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 15:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine my dismay when I read the initial headlines of the recent eater.com story… Costco&#8217;s Wine Buyer Doesn&#8217;t Think Wine Is Different Than Toilet Paper The wine buyer in question is Annette Alvarez-Peters, a long time Costco employee, WSET graduate and fellow MW student.  While I disagree with the tone of the article that seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>France Trip Part 2: Chateau Pichon-Longueville  2eme Cru Classe, Pauillac</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[            The vineyards of the estate date back to the 17th century when Jacques de Pichon, Baron de Longueville, with the help of his father in law, Pierre de Rauzan, began to assemble the vineyards. The Chateau, where it exists today, was built in 1851, designed by Charles Burgeuet, by Raoul de Pichon-Longueville, one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My MW Scholarship Trip to France!!! Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  WAAAAYYYY Back in November I went on one of the most exciting trips of my life to France based on the generosity of AXA Millesimes.  I promised then that I would blog about it and now after several months I am going to fulfill that promise!  The next few weeks will be short excerpts recalling this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merlot: The Red Delicious Apple of the Wine World</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emma Pearl Wine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merlot]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was perusing the produce section of my local Safeway this weekend I was trying to decide which fruit to get for the week.  I love apples so I decided to go that direction.  For the first time in quite a while I did not reach for the Pink Ladies or the Galas.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 2012 Master of Wine Napa Seminar: Year 4 of my pursuit of the MW.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In just two days time close to 70 MW students will converge on Yountville, CA all with the same goal of one day becoming a Master of Wine.  This will be my fourth seminar and my last as a full program student.  As this is my 3rd shot at the exam this year there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Quirks of Quercus: Everything You&#8217;ve Ever Wanted to Know About Oak but were Afraid to Ask!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wine Barrels]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of those posts that I put out there not only to educate but to get some discussion going around one of the most interesting but often misunderstood aspects of winemaking.  I think when most people in vision a winery oak barrels almost always show up in their mind&#8217;s eye. First off there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Musings on Wine Scores</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[100 Point Scale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Parker]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wine Scores]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello all! First of all let me apologize for going AWOL the last two months.  Work, Home, and MW studies have all been crazy busy as it is for anyone during the holidays.  I hope in this new year I will be able to put up more weekly posts. As always if you have any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvest 2011: How California became Italy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NovaCadamatre</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vintage Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wine Styles]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Asti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chardonnay]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tannins]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year has had it all.  We started with heavy frost on the Central Coast, rain during bloom and spring hail.  The craziness continued with a long temperate summer which was punctuated by few heat spikes (if you can call mid 90s a heat spike out here).  Growers fought Powdery Mildew and numerous invasive insect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvest 2011 &#8211; Week 11 &#8211; The Grape Landslide&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.novacadamatre.com/harvest-2011-week-11-the-grape-landslide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.novacadamatre.com/harvest-2011-week-11-the-grape-landslide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NovaCadamatre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vintage Notes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right now, things are crazy! People are rushing to pick fruit.  We&#8217;re working 24/7 to get all the fruit in and we&#8217;re running out of tank space.  I haven&#8217;t really had time to put all my thoughts from this week into words because I&#8217;ve been frantically trying to make the best wine we possibly can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvest 2011 &#8211; Week 10 &#8211; It Rains&#8230; so I make Soup!</title>
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		<comments>http://www.novacadamatre.com/harvest-2011-week-10-it-rains-so-i-make-soup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NovaCadamatre</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Asti]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Recipes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, we all knew it would get to this.  What we didn&#8217;t know is how much it would rain. Asti topped out at almost 2 1/2 inches of rain over last week.  We&#8217;re getting more today as well.  Rain during this time of year is challenging for several reasons.  1) When it&#8217;s raining there is no [...]]]></description>
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