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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>Live Wine Blogging &#8211; White Wines #WBC10</title>
		<link>http://www.grapesmart.net/2010/06/25/live-wine-blogging-white-wines-wbc10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessyca Frederick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[White 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 white-wine lovers! (Updates coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wine Blogger Conference &#8211; Day 3</title>
		<link>http://www.grapesmart.net/2010/06/25/wine-blogger-conference-day-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessyca Frederick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happened to Day 2? Well, I was too drunk to write about it yesterday, so you&#8217;ll get THAT update later  
We&#8217;re in the middle of Day 3 (it&#8217;s the first official day of the conference) and it&#8217;s quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wine Blogger Conference 2010 &#8211; Day 1</title>
		<link>http://www.grapesmart.net/2010/06/24/wine-blogger-conference-2010-day-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessyca Frederick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The GrapeSmart gals took off for Washington yesterday morning at the uncivilized hour of 7am, but we landed in Seattle with a whole day to get ourselves out to Yakima Valley. We grabbed our rental car and headed for, duh, [...]]]></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>My Introduction to the C. Donatiello Winery</title>
		<link>http://www.grapesmart.net/2010/05/26/donatiello-winery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 18:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessyca Frederick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I was kindly invited to a pre-release luncheon for C. Donatiello Winery at the lovely Chaya Brasserie in Beverly Hills. Rarely one to turn down free wine or free food, I gladly accepted the invitation and waited for [...]]]></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>
		<link>http://www.grapesmart.net/2010/05/03/my-brain-lacks-balance-finish/</link>
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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>The San Francisco Vintners Market</title>
		<link>http://www.grapesmart.net/2010/04/29/san-francisco-vintners-market-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessyca Frederick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I sprinted up the coast for the San Francisco Vintners Market upon the request of a super-duper awesome friend. We SF-newbies found our way to the Fort Mason Center early enough to enjoy the event before [...]]]></description>
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