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		<title>Winemaking. It&#8217;s all about balance, people</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Tasting Note: Robert Mondavi 1995 Napa Valley Zinfandel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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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>In the California Vineyards: A quick stop at Alpha Omega</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
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										I&#8217;m finally getting around to blogging about the wineries I visited in California, last fall, after the Wine Bloggers Conference. Maybe I needed to let all that wine tasting and winery visiting steep for a while. Or maybe I just got very busy when I returned from California and never got around to it. Or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tasting note: 1997 California Cabernet Sauvignon</title>
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										On the evening following the death of Napa Valley legend Robert Mondavi, I headed with a higher than usual level of anticipation to my main wine tasting group&#8217;s tasting on 1997 California Cabernet Sauvignon. The events of the day put the tasting under a special light, with everyone wondering, on arrival, whether or not a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A toast to Robert Mondavi</title>
		<link>http://winecase.ca/2008/05/16/a-toast-to-robert-mondavi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 22:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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										As I mentioned in a previous blog post, the very first wine experience that gave me a real sense of what wine could be about came from a bottle of Robert Mondavi Pinot Noir Reserve 1987. And I have several very good memories of drinking Mondavi wines, before the days of the Constellation takeover that [...]]]></description>
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