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		<title>Can blind tasting help you see things clearly?</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2011/05/04/can-blind-tasting-help-you-see-things-clearly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 04:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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										Oh, Twitter. The things you make me do.
Last Saturday, I caught a tweet by Cory Cartwright which said &#8211; a little provocatively, I&#8217;m sure: &#8220;Blind tastings, dumb? or just a waste of time?&#8221;. Despite many reactions by a lot of serious people, Cory never followed up on that tweet, and since he&#8217;s put his blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Return to Tastecamp: off to the Finger Lakes</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2010/05/06/return-to-tastecamp-off-to-the-finger-lakes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 23:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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										In the next three days, I&#8217;ll probably be tasting more riesling than I&#8217;ve ever tasted in my life.
That&#8217;s because riesling is the number one grape in the Finger Lakes, host to the second edition of Tastecamp, a meeting of bloggers organized by Lenn Thompson of the blog formerly known as Lenndevours, and now more precisely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natural wine: it&#8217;s complicated, naturally</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2010/04/26/natural-wine-its-complicated-naturally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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&#8220;We consider the best wine is one that can be aged without any preservative; nothing must be mixed with it which might obscure its natural taste. For the most excellent wine is one which has given pleasure by its own natural qualities.&#8221; &#8211; Columella, On Agriculture, Book 12.

It all started (this time around) with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chilean Earthquake hits wineries hard</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2010/03/03/chilean-earthquake-hits-wineries-hard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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										When last weekend&#8217;s gigantic earthquake struck Chile, it hit the southern coast of the country particularly hard, but it also hit wine producing regions like Maule, Colchagua and Bio-Bio, close to the epicenter of the tremor.
As the shockwaves hit, they caused piled up barrels and bottles to fall to the ground and tanks to buckle [...]]]></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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										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>New Zealand wine woes: there&#8217;s always a price to pay for volume</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2009/12/12/new-zealand-wine-woes-theres-always-a-price-to-pay-for-volume/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2009/12/12/new-zealand-wine-woes-theres-always-a-price-to-pay-for-volume/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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										An article in the New York Times, this Friday, discussed the challenges currently faced by the New Zealand wine industry, as the high-flying Kiwi sauvignon blancs get caught in the global wine market slowdown. Just as the economy was coming down hard, New Zealand got itself two bumper crops in a row, producing more wine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shipping US wine to Canada: FedEx gets in the game &#8211; and raises questions</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2009/11/29/shipping-us-wine-to-canada-fedex-gets-in-the-game-and-raises-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2009/11/29/shipping-us-wine-to-canada-fedex-gets-in-the-game-and-raises-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>winecase</dc:creator>
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										An article on the Wine Law web site, an extremely interesting source on everything legal about how wine is sold (or not sold) within Canada, caused a bit of excitement among Canadian wine tweeps, today, as it revealed that FedEx has begun shipping wine directly from the United States to Canada &#8211; or at least, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cellared in Canada: big bottlers move to stem growing outrage</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2009/10/03/cellared-in-canada-big-bottlers-move-to-stem-growing-outrage/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2009/10/03/cellared-in-canada-big-bottlers-move-to-stem-growing-outrage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>winecase</dc:creator>
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										Over the last few weeks, pressure had been building nationally and internationally, concerning the deceptive Cellared in Canada wines. These inexpensive bottles, made by the country&#8217;s major wine bottlers, give a Canadian aura to blends made totally (or almost) from foreign wine brought in bulk to this country from Chile, Australia or elsewhere.
Last month, articles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A season of wine conferences: Santa Rosa or Dallas anyone? Lisbon maybe?</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2009/07/18/a-season-of-wine-conferences-santa-rosa-or-dallas-anyone-lisbon-maybe/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2009/07/18/a-season-of-wine-conferences-santa-rosa-or-dallas-anyone-lisbon-maybe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>winecase</dc:creator>
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										Next Friday, July 24, 2009, the second edition of the Wine Bloggers Conference will get started at the Flamingo Resort in Santa Rosa, California (again). Last year&#8217;s inaugural conference was a sold out event, with some 170 participants, and this year is sold out again, at an increased capacity of 250.
The conference program brings back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU regulators give up: rosé will remain rosé.</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2009/06/08/eu-regulators-give-up-rose-will-remain-rose/</link>
		<comments>http://winecase.ca/2009/06/08/eu-regulators-give-up-rose-will-remain-rose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>winecase</dc:creator>
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										Now that&#8217;s some good news to start my wine week.
The European Union Agriculture Commissioner, Mariann Fischer Boel, announced today that the EU is giving up on its plan to allow rosés to be made from a blend of white and red wines. This commercially-minded regulation, which I&#8217;d written about with dismay in February, was explicitely [...]]]></description>
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