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	<title>GrapeSmart.net &#187; Arianna&#8217;s Wine Tasting Notes</title>
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		<title>Happy Stands: Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara Becomes an Official AVA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arianna Armstrong</dc:creator>
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On January 16, 1919 the Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) and the Volstead Act went into effect in the United States. The ratification of these acts of Congress prohibited the consumption of “intoxicating liquors”, except for use in medicine, church rituals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live Wine Blogging – Red Wines #WBC10</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 01:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessyca Frederick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Red Wines &#8211; Speed-dating for Bloggers &#38; Wineries!
We sat at a table for an hour while 12 wineries brought us 12 wines  and shpieled us for 5 minutes each. Here&#8217;s the rundown&#8230; lots of  goodies for red-wine lovers! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romancing Rioja</title>
		<link>http://www.grapesmart.net/2010/06/21/romancing-rioja/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arianna Armstrong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rioja. Even the name sounds infused with notes of passion and the warmth of exotic, Spanish summer nights.
Named after the Autonomous Community of La Rioja, the area is a Denominación de Origen Calificada (D.O.C. qualified designation of origin), and records [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malbec Might Be Better Than Men</title>
		<link>http://www.grapesmart.net/2010/05/13/malbec-might-be-better-than-men/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 09:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arianna Armstrong</dc:creator>
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Remember those drunken high school Spring Breaks? You know, the kind with vast bodies of water, cruising some sort of strip, 12 kids packed into a quasi-clean motel room and rampant instances of unsafe behavior &#8211; both before and after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Brain Lacks Balance, Finish</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 03:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arianna Armstrong</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;ve always been a foodie. My father is proud to tell anyone who will listen that, as a baby, I wasn&#8217;t given traditional baby food. Instead, my parents would grind to a mash whatever they were having for supper, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McManis: Valuable Friendships and Value-Priced Wine</title>
		<link>http://www.grapesmart.net/2010/04/19/mcmanis-valuable-friendships-and-value-priced-wine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arianna Armstrong</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;ll be gaining a new title this year. With the addition of these extra letters, what I permanently lose is snowy Midwestern Christmases where I giddily stuff myself full of bacon, cheese and mayonnaise hors d&#8217;eouvres; the two-parent home in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wine Club Review: Hola, Vinos</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arianna Armstrong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a recent crisp, spring afternoon I met Jess in her sunny apartment to hunker down and taste the latest wine shipment from Gourmet Monthly Wine Club (read more reviews at WineClubReviews.net).
Jess opened the box and set three bottles on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Sipping For Some Great Causes</title>
		<link>http://www.grapesmart.net/2010/04/01/summer-sipping-for-some-great-causes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arianna Armstrong</dc:creator>
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One of my favorite things about the heady days of summer is the even more hedonistic nights. I grew up in the South, where the humid afternoons gave way to evenings which wrapped themselves like a warm blanket around bare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baby, You Can Drive Off With My Carmenere</title>
		<link>http://www.grapesmart.net/2010/03/26/baby-you-can-drive-off-with-my-carmenere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arianna Armstrong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I have ever represented myself as anything other than a neophyte in this overwhelming world of fermented fruit juice &#8211; my bad. Let me assure you that I know I have a lot to learn.
For example, before my last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Move Over, Manischewitz! Kosher Wine For Grown-Ups</title>
		<link>http://www.grapesmart.net/2010/03/18/move-over-manischewitz-kosher-wine-for-grown-ups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arianna Armstrong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years, kosher wine has been synonymous with syrupy sweet &#8211; almost grape jam-like &#8211; wine. Some people love it and some people force the stuff down their gullet for the sake of tradition, religion or making grandma&#8217;s dry potato [...]]]></description>
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