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		<title>Tasting Note: 2008 Altostratus Pinot Noir, Black Cloud Wine</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2010/08/23/tasting-note-2008-altostratus-pinot-noir-black-cloud-wine/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2010/08/23/tasting-note-2008-altostratus-pinot-noir-black-cloud-wine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bradley Cooper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cayuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christophe Baron]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Okanagan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
										
										
										The people you meet on Twitter&#8230;
One of the most interesting has certainly been Bradley Cooper, the man formerly known as Bradinator, who now tweets entirely from his BlackCloudWine account, the name of his most recent and most personal winemaking venture.
Bradley is the winemaker at Township 7, a winery at the southern end of the Naramata [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tasting Note: Il Frappato 2007, IGT Sicilia, Ariana Occhipinti</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2010/05/28/tasting-note-il-frappato-2007-igt-sicilia-ariana-occhipinti/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2010/05/28/tasting-note-il-frappato-2007-igt-sicilia-ariana-occhipinti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 19:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nero d'avola]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sicily]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terroir SF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vittoria]]></category>
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										I&#8217;ve been a fan of Arianna Occhipinti&#8217;s wines for close to two years, now, since I tasted her nero d&#8217;avola, Il Siccagno, at Terroir SF, with a couple of friends I&#8217;d met at the first Wine Bloggers&#8217; Conference (read the blog post, in French, right here). Since then, the wines have started to be imported [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Further thoughts about that whole Lagrézette challenge thing…</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2010/05/25/further-thoughts-about-that-whole-lagrezette-challenge-thing%e2%80%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2010/05/25/further-thoughts-about-that-whole-lagrezette-challenge-thing%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 23:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red wine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winemaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cahors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cédric Blanc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Château Lagrézette]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cuvée Dame Honneur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean Courtois]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Le Pigeonnier 1999]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malbec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malbec Days]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palate Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rémy Charest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vanity winemaking]]></category>

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										Last week, in conjunction with my participation in Malbec Days, I took part as planned in a blind tasting of eight malbec wines organized by Château Lagrézette, Cahors’ best known wine producer, internationally. The whole event, as I wrote before on this blog and on PalatePress, was a “rematch”, following my review of Le Pigeonnier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tastecamp Day 3: Leading the Way with Pinot</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2010/05/10/tastecamp-day-3-leading-the-way-with-pinot/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2010/05/10/tastecamp-day-3-leading-the-way-with-pinot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 13:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Riesling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pinot noir]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cayuga Lake]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[François Frères]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sheldrake Point]]></category>
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										If you want to know if a wine region has potential, look to the best. There can always be stragglers and careless winemakers, but looking at what the top vignerons can do will really let you know the possibilities.
Looking at the top wines we tasted over the weekend at Tastecamp, it&#8217;s clear that the Finger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tasting Note: Le Cigare Volant 1997, Bonny Doon Vineyards</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2010/01/28/tasting-note-le-cigare-volant-1997-bonny-doon-vineyards/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2010/01/28/tasting-note-le-cigare-volant-1997-bonny-doon-vineyards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[1997]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mourvèdre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Randall Grahm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Santa Cruz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[synthetic cork]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://winecase.ca/?p=814</guid>
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										It is with great sadness that I share the passing of a great wine. Born in Santa Cruz, California, in 1997, Le Cigare Volant was made of grenache, syrah, cinsault and mourvèdre. Its early departure was due to premature oxydation, caused by the use of an improper synthetic cork. Commemorative donations can be made to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tasting Note: Petalos 2007, Bierzo, Descendientes de J. Palacios</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2010/01/05/tasting-note-petalos-2007-bierzo-descendientes-de-j-palacios/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2010/01/05/tasting-note-petalos-2007-bierzo-descendientes-de-j-palacios/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[biodynamic wine]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alvaro Palacios]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mencia]]></category>
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										I was going to blog about something else (98 Bordeaux, to be exact), but this wine is just too good. I already raved about the 2006 vintage, and the 2007 is just as good, if not better.
I&#8217;ve now tasted several vintages of Petalos, Alvaro Palacios&#8217; &#8220;regular&#8221; Bierzo (Corullon being the higher-end label for Palacios in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tasting Note: 2005 Catena Alta Cabernet Sauvignon, Bodega Catena Zapata</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2009/11/08/tasting-note-2005-catena-alta-cabernet-sauvignon-bodega-catena-zapata/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2009/11/08/tasting-note-2005-catena-alta-cabernet-sauvignon-bodega-catena-zapata/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>winecase</dc:creator>
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The Catena family is one of the major and one of the most interesting players in the world of Argentinian wine. They produce a wide range of wines in all sorts of price range, with consistent quality at all levels, from the more generic Alamos label to the Catena Zapata wines, the top cuvées created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tasting Note: Robert Mondavi 1995 Napa Valley Zinfandel</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2009/10/26/tasting-note-robert-mondavi-1995-napa-valley-zinfandel/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2009/10/26/tasting-note-robert-mondavi-1995-napa-valley-zinfandel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>winecase</dc:creator>
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										Zinfandel is like white wines: it doesn&#8217;t age well, right?
Wrong. Oh, so wrong.
On Saturday night, I opened a bottle of 14-year-old zin I&#8217;d pulled from the cellar a couple of weeks ago, to set it up right and make it ready for drinking on the right occasion. Which, in the end, meant pizza night on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tasting Note : 1996 Cornas, Paul Jaboulet Aîné</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2009/09/06/tasting-note-1996-cornas-paul-jaboulet-aine/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2009/09/06/tasting-note-1996-cornas-paul-jaboulet-aine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>winecase</dc:creator>
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										I’ve long had a particular liking for the wines of Cornas, this supposedly toughest, most masculine appellation in the Rhône. I’ve always had a few bottles in my cellar, and was appalled when a scare over some of the oldest vineyards shook the region two years ago.
One of the first Cornas I cellared, shortly after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tasting notes: Le Clos Jordanne, Le Clos Jordanne Vineyard 2006 chardonnay and pinot noir, Twenty Mile Bench</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2009/04/19/tasting-notes-le-clos-jordanne-le-clos-jordanne-vineyard-2006-chardonnay-and-pinot-noir-twenty-mile-bench/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2009/04/19/tasting-notes-le-clos-jordanne-le-clos-jordanne-vineyard-2006-chardonnay-and-pinot-noir-twenty-mile-bench/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>winecase</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
										
										
										I&#8217;ve been a fan of Le Clos Jordanne wines since their first release, the 2004 vintage, two years ago. Made from young vines, they may not have had the depth of great wines, but they certainly showed the promise. It was terrific to taste pinot noir that from the Niagara that had such a clear [...]]]></description>
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