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		<title>Wine From Here: exploring the natural wine movement in California</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2011/08/22/wine-from-here-exploring-the-natural-wine-movement-in-california/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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										What is natural wine? What does it mean to make a natural wine? And how is natural wine taking hold in the vineyards and wineries of California? Those are the questions that Wine From Here, a documentary by Martin Carel and his brother Matthieu that is premiering on Thursday night in San Francisco.
 
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>
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		<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>Wine Blogging Wednesday 71: Edmunds St. John 2009 Wylie Syrah, El Dorado County</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2011/03/16/wine-blogging-wednesday-71-edmunds-st-john-2009-wylie-syrah-el-dorado-county/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 06:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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										Wine Blogging Wednesday has often been very good at getting participants to think outside the wine box. This 71st edition, presided over by Tim Elliott of Winecast, calls upon us to go inside and out: outside the Rhône &#8211; geographically &#8211; but with Rhône grapes.
That, needless to say, leaves many possibilities.
Syrah, grenache, viognier, mourvèdre, carignan, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natural wine: a more practical point of view</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2010/10/18/natural-wine-a-more-practical-point-of-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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										Since I last wrote on the subject in the spring, the natural wine debate has only heated up and taken some unexpected turns. From Alice Feiring to Jancis Robinson, Steve Heimoff, Jon Bonné and Mike Steinberger, a lot of people have pitched in with their point of view and sometimes controversies, as I point out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In praise of diversity (or engineering it): Jura, New Zealand and yeast strains</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2010/08/19/in-praise-of-diversity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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I haven&#8217;t been blogging as much as I usually do, this past couple of months, partly because I found it hard to run through wine regions at a fast pace, absorb all the information and write something coherent about it at the same time, partly because the day job has been very busy, partly because [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 23:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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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>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>Winemaking. It&#8217;s all about balance, people</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2010/02/19/winemaking-its-all-about-balance-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remy Charest</dc:creator>
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										Being in the midst of the Olympics, as the whole world is watching athletes striving to go faster, higher, stronger, it&#8217;s good to remember that winemaking is not an athletic endeavour.
It may be about better, but it&#8217;s not about bigger and more. It&#8217;s about balance. It&#8217;s about working out a set of variables so that [...]]]></description>
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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>Tasting Note: Undercurrent Muscat-Sauvignon Blanc 2007 and other crazy wines from Creekside Estate Winery</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2009/12/06/tasting-note-undercurrent-muscat-sauvignon-blanc-2007-and-other-crazy-wines-from-creekside-estate-winery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
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										Creekside is one interesting winery. They can make some very straightforward, accessible wines with a great quality-price ratio, as shown not only by their Estate series of wines (like that nice, pepper-strawberry driven shiraz), but also by the 60,000 some odd cases the same winemaking team makes for No. 99 Estates Winery, generally known as [...]]]></description>
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