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		<title>Enjoying older wine the way it is</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2012/02/12/enjoying-older-wine-the-way-it-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White Bordeaux]]></category>
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										Tonight, at a family dinner, with my parents and my sister&#8217;s family, we drank a 2000 Dame de Montrose, the second wine from Château Montrose. It was delicious and  well-rounded, tannins nicely softened up, still a lovely amount of fruit, and that pleasant dustiness that comes to Bordeaux wines, especially those with a good dose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live Wine Blogging from Charlottesville, Virginia &#8211; now, the reds</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2011/07/23/live-wine-blogging-from-charlottesville-virginia-now-the-reds/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2011/07/23/live-wine-blogging-from-charlottesville-virginia-now-the-reds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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										Yesterday was the Live Wine Blogging session for white wines at the Wine Bloggers Conference. Today, after a great keynote speech by Eric Asimov, who insisted on tasting wine in context, we&#8217;re stepping right into this speed dating format. Ironic but fun.
CalNaturale 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon
I was not terribly impressed by the white TetraPak wine from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live wine blogging from WBC11 in Charlottesville, Virginia</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2011/07/22/live-wine-blogging-from-wbc11-in-charlottesville-virginia/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2011/07/22/live-wine-blogging-from-wbc11-in-charlottesville-virginia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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										The fourth annual Wine Bloggers Conference started officially at 1 PM today in Charlottesville, Virginia, with a great, down to earth keynote speech from Jancis Robinson, followed by breakout sessions (including the one on local wine, which I was happy  to take part in with Lenn Thompson, Frank Morgan and Dave McIntyre).
But now, the crazy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tasting Note (and more): Littorai 2006 Roman Vineyard Pinot Noir, Anderson Valley AVA</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2011/06/20/tasting-note-and-more-littorai-2006-roman-vineyard-pinot-noir-anderson-valley-ava/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 06:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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										Almost three years after I met him in October 2008 at his winery in Sebastopol, California, I still consider the hour or two I spent with Littorai’s winemaker, Ted Lemon, one of the most enlightening moments I&#8217;ve had in my years as a wine writer. Lemon, who makes a number of remarkably diverse chardonnays and pinot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tasting Note: 2009 Old Vines Chenin Blanc, Road 13 Vineyards, Okanagan Valley VQA</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2011/04/30/tasting-note-2009-old-vines-chenin-blanc-road-13-vineyards-okanagan-valley-vqa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 03:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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										Road 13 Vineyards, at the southern end of the Okanagan Valley, has certainly won notice for the remarkable blends that Michael Bartier, the estate&#8217;s winemaker until last January, put together seamlessly from sometimes improbable combinations of varieties. Whether it&#8217;s the Stemwinder white (chardonnay, chardonnay musqué and sauvignon blanc) or the Rockpile red (60% syrah, 19% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tasting Note: White Birch Brewing Belgian Style Pale Ale</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2011/03/18/tasting-note-white-birch-brewing-belgian-style-pale-ale/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2011/03/18/tasting-note-white-birch-brewing-belgian-style-pale-ale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 06:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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										So, what do you get when you head to a cheese shop in South Boston, to get what you need for the evening&#8217;s pasta? Why, you get New Hampshire beer, of course.
More specifically, during my last trip to see friends in Boston, we went to South End Formaggio, a fantastic cheese and meat shop &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This post is pointless &#8211; and so is the rest of this blog</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2010/10/09/this-post-is-pointless-and-so-is-the-rest-of-this-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2010/10/09/this-post-is-pointless-and-so-is-the-rest-of-this-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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										I don’t believe in points. That&#8217;s why there are no points or other ways of scoring in my tasting notes.
I think they’re more confusing than helpful, and that their reliability is so low as to render them useless. That’s why I never used any scoring system for reviewing wines on this blog, and never will.
One [...]]]></description>
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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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										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>Live wine blogging from Walla Walla, take two: the red wines</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2010/06/26/live-wine-blogging-from-walla-walla-take-two-the-red-wines/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2010/06/26/live-wine-blogging-from-walla-walla-take-two-the-red-wines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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										Today, the Wine Bloggers Conference was more focused on the terroir of Walla Walla: the geology, the producers, the varieties, the soils, the climate, the combination of things that are giving shape to this wine region. The well-organized winery visits, with three distinct stops for each group of bloggers, were very successful and allowed a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live white wine blogging from Walla Walla, Washington</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2010/06/25/live-white-wine-blogging-from-walla-walla-washington/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2010/06/25/live-white-wine-blogging-from-walla-walla-washington/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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										The American Wine Bloggers Conference has just begun on a strong note: good tacos from the Walla Walla taco trucks, good tastings, meeting with fellow bloggers (many who I only knew online), an interesting keynote speech from Steve Heimoff, the Wine Blog Awards, and good breakout sessions on blogging, in various fashions. Twitter is on [...]]]></description>
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