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		<title>Happy Stands: Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara Becomes an Official AVA</title>
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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>Random Wine Statistics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[California exports relatively little wine (100 million gallons, half in  bulk at just over $4 per gallon; sales in bottle average $11.60 per  gallon.) Lapsley pointed out that low-cost wine is made from inexpensive  grapes, most from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maximize Your Wine Budget by Going META?</title>
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I&#8217;m a geek. I&#8217;m not the pencil-neck variety of yesteryear, but rather a modern geek. I dig numbers and analytics and I have an obsessive tendency to dive into the nitty gritty of topics I&#8217;m interested in until I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grapesmart.net/2010/06/28/maximize-your-wine-budget/</link>
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		<title>Live Wine Blogging – Red Wines #WBC10</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.grapesmart.net/2010/06/26/live-wine-blogging-%e2%80%93-red-wines-wbc10/</link>
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		<title>Live Wine Blogging &#8211; White Wines #WBC10</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.grapesmart.net/2010/06/25/live-wine-blogging-white-wines-wbc10/</link>
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		<title>2010 Best Wine Bloggers #wbc10</title>
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Okay folks, GrapeSmart wasn&#8217;t a finalist but we respect and adore our fellow wine bloggers&#8230; Congratulations to every finalist, and especially the winners!
Wine Blog Awards Categories &#38; Winners:

Writing - CataVino
New Wine Blog &#8211; Swirl Smell Slurp
Single Subject Wine Blog &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wine Blogger Conference &#8211; Day 3</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.grapesmart.net/2010/06/25/wine-blogger-conference-day-3/</link>
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		<title>Wine Blogger Conference 2010 &#8211; Day 1</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.grapesmart.net/2010/06/24/wine-blogger-conference-2010-day-1/</link>
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		<title>Romancing Rioja</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.grapesmart.net/2010/06/21/romancing-rioja/</link>
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		<title>One-Day Sales&#8230; Good Value or Good Hype?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It all started with Woot. They took this crazy idea that if a manufacturer or retailer wants to dump a load of merchandise, why not throw it in front of a mountain deal-hungry netizens and make that merchandise go away [...]]]></description>
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