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		<title>Conversations with winemakers on Twitter</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2009/12/31/conversations-with-winemakers-on-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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										Yeah, I&#8217;ll admit it, Twitter sometimes keeps me from blogging more. When fatigue sets in, it&#8217;s easier to keep to the under-140-character format, and just stay with the conversations and the flow of information, rather than piping down and getting that blog post finished.
Mind you, as I look back on 2009, I must also point [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A case of Canadian wine on Palate Press &#8211; and thoughts on the Canadian Wine brand</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2009/12/19/a-case-of-canadian-wine-on-palate-press-and-thoughts-on-the-canadian-wine-brand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ravine vineyard]]></category>
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										Busy week on the blogging front for me, as I contributed a sizeable article on Canadian wines for Palate Press, and started The Food Case, the companion food blog to The Wine Case. And that&#8217;s not counting the amount of tinkering involved from moving The Wine Case to its new winecase.ca address. Energy-consuming, for sure, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog rankings: what a Wine Blogging Wednesday can do for your blog.</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2009/04/07/blog-rankings-what-a-wine-blogging-wednesday-can-do-for-your-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2009/04/07/blog-rankings-what-a-wine-blogging-wednesday-can-do-for-your-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>winecase</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David McDuff]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[North vs South]]></category>
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										I got contacted, last week, by the folks at information portal Wikio, asking me if I wanted to have a chance to post an exclusive preview of the new rankings for top food and wine blogs compiled at the end of March. I&#8217;d come up over 30 spots since the previous rankings, they said, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wine Blogging Wednesday 55: North vs South, just across the Loire</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2009/03/18/wine-blogging-wednesday-55-cabernet-franc/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2009/03/18/wine-blogging-wednesday-55-cabernet-franc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>winecase</dc:creator>
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										The North vs South theme I proposed for Wine Blogging Wednesday provides bloggers with certain guidelines (use the same grapes, so you can compare), but also with a lot of leeway. Thousands of miles of leeway, really.
If you wanted, you could pick similar wines from the other side of the world. The antipodes, really. Spanish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wine Blogging Wednesday 54: How do I love Piedmont? Let me count the ways</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2009/02/18/wine-blogging-wednesday-54-how-do-i-love-piedmont-let-me-count-the-ways/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2009/02/18/wine-blogging-wednesday-54-how-do-i-love-piedmont-let-me-count-the-ways/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>winecase</dc:creator>
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										There are so many good things about Piedmont that I could hardly have been more excited about the 54th edition of the Wine Blogging Wednesday. David McDuff&#8217;s theme, A Passion for Piedmont, was really my kind of thing.
I love just about everything about Piedmont, in every color and style. Recently, I wrote about Moscato, this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tasting Note: Pignolo 2003, Castello di Buttrio, Veneto</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2009/02/04/tasting-note-pignolo-2003-castello-di-buttrio-veneto/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2009/02/04/tasting-note-pignolo-2003-castello-di-buttrio-veneto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>winecase</dc:creator>
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										Italy certainly is a treasure trove of unique grape varieties. Often, these varieties were almost forgotten and lost before being revived, in the last couple of decades, by some dedicated winemakers who just knew that they could provide great wines with distinctive characteristics.
Think of the Arneis of Piedmont, this tasty white grape that hardly only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California wines for Obama&#039;s inauguration &#8211; and thoughts about wine at the White House</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2009/01/19/california-wines-for-obamas-inauguration-and-thoughts-about-wine-at-the-white-house/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2009/01/19/california-wines-for-obamas-inauguration-and-thoughts-about-wine-at-the-white-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>winecase</dc:creator>
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										I have to say that Americans sure know how to throw a big party. Case in point, Barack Obama&#8217;s inauguration, which is drawing an incredible line-up of artists over these few days, and millions of people in tow, to witness this historic occasion.
It may be presumed that, at some of these functions, wine will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wine Blogging Wednesday 53: Would you like some Slovenian chardonnay with your breakfast?</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2009/01/15/wine-blogging-wednesday-53-would-you-like-some-slovenian-chardonnay-with-your-breakfast/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2009/01/15/wine-blogging-wednesday-53-would-you-like-some-slovenian-chardonnay-with-your-breakfast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>winecase</dc:creator>
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										You know, it isn&#8217;t just by chance that Jeff Stai, from the Twisted Oak Winery, wound up with the Twitter nickname Eljefetwisted. I mean, a man that calls his wines Pig Stai, Potty Mouth or River of Skulls is obviously not walking on the straight and narrow &#8211; and thank God, because his wines are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tasting Note: Capitel Croce 2002, Veneto IGT, Anselmi</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2009/01/11/tasting-note-capitel-croce-2002-veneto-igt-anselmi/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2009/01/11/tasting-note-capitel-croce-2002-veneto-igt-anselmi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>winecase</dc:creator>
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										Roberto Anselmi is one of the great prides of the Veneto region, and especially, of the Soave appellation. So much so that he left the appellattion.
Indeed, Anselmi thought that the authorities were not hard enough on Soave producers, when it came to ensuring quality. So instead of being associated with a level of wines he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gravner in the morning, arvine at noon, Sagrantino for dinner – and some thoughts about Swiss drinking and driving laws.</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2008/12/31/gravner-in-the-morning-arvine-at-noon-sagrantino-for-dinner-%e2%80%93-and-some-thoughts-about-swiss-drinking-and-driving-laws/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2008/12/31/gravner-in-the-morning-arvine-at-noon-sagrantino-for-dinner-%e2%80%93-and-some-thoughts-about-swiss-drinking-and-driving-laws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>winecase</dc:creator>
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What an interesting day in wine tasting yesterday was.
It started out almost accidentally, when I stopped by the tasting room of Christophe Abbet, an excellent vigneron based in Martigny, in Switzerland, to get a couple of bottles of his wines to bring home to Quebec (including a bottle of the delightful Ambre, a slowly-matured dessert [...]]]></description>
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