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		<title>Contextual pleasures: NYC chic meets Corsican mystique</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fiorina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The perception and enjoyment of food and drink are often dependent on the context in which they are experienced. This phenomenon was clearly illustrated to me during my recent vacation in Corsica, an island of mystical beauty. I had eaten at the Ferme de Campo di Monte last year while researching the northern Corsica wine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The amazingly intense wines of Domaine d’Alzipratu</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fiorina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pierre Acquaviva is a warm, engaging winemaker (he helped Richard Spurr, featured in an earlier Vine Route article, set up his vineyard near Calvi) with an advanced degree in medieval literature. In 1990 he took over operation of the Domaine d’Alzipratu vineyard that had been started by his father Maurice. The 24ha property, which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Les Vignerons Corsican: a wine cooperative that&#8217;s greater than the sum of its vineyards</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fiorina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mention caves cooperatives to most people in France and you’ll elicit memories of hulking, concrete-block structures filled with concrete fermenting tanks and the sweet smell of wine intermixed with the acetic odor of some cuvée needing urgent attention. Pumping nozzles, like those in a gas station and manned by a less-than-fastidious gentleman, would be used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe Columbus wasn’t Corsican, but you tell him that</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 09:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fiorina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Clos Culombu vineyard sits between the Gulf of Calvi and the 2,000-meter-high Monte Grosso in northwestern Corsica. It owes its name to the city of Calvi’s audacious claim that Christopher Columbus was born there. In fact they’ve even erected a sign&#8211;&#8217;Calvi: cité natale de Christophe Colomb&#8216;—on the city’s outskirts. You can imagine how much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corsica’s Patrimonio seeks cultural classification status</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fiorina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arguably, the finest wine in Corsica comes from Patrimonio in the island’s northeast. The 32 winemakers in the 320-hectare appellation now find themselves victims of the spectacular mountain terrain and seaside breezes that allow their grapes to ripen slowly to perfection. These same attributes, not surprisingly, attract tourists, and property developers are interested in this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The savagely beautiful wines of Domaine Pieretti</title>
		<link>http://www.thevineroute.com/corsica/domaine-pieretti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fiorina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cap Corse is a windswept promontory, jutting out like a rude single-finger gesture and extending Corsica an additional 40km northward. It has historically been a land of fishermen, sailors, merchants and winemakers. Some small fishing villages continue the maritime tradition, but the majority of today’s commerce revolves around the summer tourist season. Napoleon III’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A next-generation Patrimonio winemaker</title>
		<link>http://www.thevineroute.com/corsica/nicolas-mariotti-bindi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fiorina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve noticed, following several recent medical visits, that they’re allowing younger and younger physicians to practice medicine. Or, maybe it’s just me, as I’ve recently passed the half-century mark. The same thing seems to be happening with winemakers. There’s an entirely new generation coming along, and some of them are making wine that rivals their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corsican wine tourism guides finished&#8211;finallyand The Vine Route goes back to school</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fiorina</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vendange]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Loyal readers of The Vine Route know that I’m a big fan of Corsican wines. Leading Corsican winemakers such as Christian Imbert of Domaine de Torraccia, Antoine Arena of Domaine Arena, and Yves Canarelli of Clos Canarelli have all been featured here. Part of my fascination with Corsica is related to my wife being Corsican, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Enclos des Anges: a devil of a good Corsican wine</title>
		<link>http://www.thevineroute.com/corsica/enclos-des-anges/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thevineroute.com/corsica/enclos-des-anges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fiorina</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Calvi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A former professional water polo player, who looks like a rock star with his earrings, whip-thin body, tattooed arms, and spiky hair, Richard Spurr is the first foreigner to create a vineyard in Corsica. The English-Irish winemaker came to Corsica via the Montpelier area, where he learned about winemaking on the job at several Faugères [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Domaine Giacometti: An oasis in an inhospitable land</title>
		<link>http://www.thevineroute.com/corsica/domaine-giacometti/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thevineroute.com/corsica/domaine-giacometti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fiorina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Désert des Agriates is a burnt-to-a-cinder landscape extending westward from the Gulf of St-Florent and the mouth of the Ostriconi River. This 16,000-square-hectare (almost 62-square-mile) area on Corsica’s northern coast is dotted with clumps of cacti and scrub-covered hills. Inhospitable as it appears today, this area was once a veritable breadbasket during the time [...]]]></description>
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