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		<title>The difference between &#8216;Les américains&#8216; and suckers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though this is a personal blog, I don’t write about myself very much in it. The focus, naturally, is on French wine and winemakers. This will be an exception, however, as the first part of the month of June has been devoted to a viticulture (&#8220;vineyard&#8221;) internship for my French oenology studies. I’m doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Plageoles: Gaillac’s first family</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fiorina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Every generation needs a new revolution.” Thomas Jefferson Photo : Isabelle Rozenbaum - www.rozenbaum.com It was the Phoenicians, then the Romans ( arriving four centuries later, around the first century B.C.), who first planted vines in the Gaillac region northeast of Toulouse. It predates Bordeaux, and like Cahors, Madiran and other wine regions in southwestern France [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roses are red, Violets are blue, Fronton wine is good, and violet, too</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fiorina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Violets are plants. Violet can be a color and even a woman’s name. It turns out that violet can even be a good wine-tasting theme. Paul Bonno who is in my DNO (Diplôme National d’Œnologue) program in Toulouse conducted such a wine tasting in late November at the Château Labastidié in Gaillac, where he served [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Domaine Peyres Roses: finely-engineered bio vineyards</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fiorina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Astrid and Olivier Bonnafont work their Domaine Peyres Roses vineyard in Gaillac with missionary-serious bio zeal. No chemicals or artificial fertilizers are used on the vines or in their wines. A horse is used to cultivate the vineyard, and they’ve recently obtained a pump that sprays, using the action of its wheels being turned, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A class act: The Club des Vignerons Lauréats</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fiorina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many sorts of wine shows in France. There are international shows with wines from all over the world and regional shows with wines from a particular wine region. There are local shows with wines from one appellation. I’ve even been to wine shows celebrating one particular variety of grape. There are shows with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black is back: Cahors Malbec returns to the world stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fiorina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many things in France, Cahors wines have had a long, and sometimes tumultuous, history. People were enjoying “the black wine of Cahors,” named for its characteristic inky color, since the Romans developed the Cahors wine industry, planting vines here in southwestern France even before they got to Bordeaux. Cahors wines reached their heyday in [...]]]></description>
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