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		<title>Challenge Your Wine Senses</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2010/03/challenge-your-wine-senses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday, my wife, Sheri (@sherimoto), and I went to Calistoga, CA and participated in a truly fun and unique experience in wine country. Our friend, Marcy Gordon (@marcygordon), a fellow blogger, invited us to join her and a group of wine bloggers at Wine Sensory Experience.
As their website states, Wine Sensory Experience helps you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8th Annual Passion for Pinot Noir Summit Wrap-up</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2010/03/8th-annual-passion-for-pinot-noir-summit-wrap-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although this was the 8th Pinot Summit, this was my first (yes, I was a Summit virgin) both as a participant and a judge. There are few wine varietals with such a passionate and serious following and the process for selecting the top wine is a long and arduous journey that Barbara Drady does with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Super Tuscan Blind Tasting</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/06/super-tuscan-blind-tasting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday was a busy day. Starting with going to the airport at 9am and flying to San Diego via Salt Lake City and arriving to shop for some appetizers for that evening&#8217;s tasting, it was hectic. But ultimately, it was a lot of fun meeting new people and tasting some wines that I&#8217;ve never had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blind Tasting of GSM from Around the World</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/05/blind-tasting-of-gsm-from-around-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 04:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, we hosted a tasting of Southern Rhône style blends from everywhere. All these wines were from different vintage years, but all are currently available. The only common theme is they were primarily GSM (Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre) blends. I picked these wines specifically because Grenache was the highest percentage varietal in all of them. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blind Tasting of Spanish Reds from Ribera del Duero</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/04/blind-tasting-of-reds-from-ribera-del-duero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For our monthly tasting we had six Spanish reds from the Ribera del Duero appellation.  Here&#8217;s an excerpt of the email from Bob, our host:
For about 100 years (since 1864), Vega Sicilia was the only wine producer of note in this region, but they made what was generally regarded as the best wine in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blind Tasting of Cabernet Franc</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/04/cab-franc-blind-tasting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve fallen behind in my blog posts because I&#8217;ve been to so many wine events in the past several weeks that I have more to write about than I have time to write. As a result, this post probably should have been done a week ago but is just now getting posted.
Last Saturday, Sheri and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blind Tasting of 1999 &amp; 2000 Bordeaux</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/03/1999-2000-bordeaux-blind-tasting-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, Sheri and I went to a coworker&#8217;s house for a blind tasting of 1999 and 2000 Bordeaux. It was our first time with this group but we were happy to find out that they have a very similar format as our wine club so we felt comfortable with how they ran things.
The wines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blind Tasting of California Petite Sirahs</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/03/blind-tasting-california-petite-sirahs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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Last night my wine group did a blind tasting of California Petite Syrahs consisting of five Ridge wines and two others. After our group&#8217;s careful ranking and scoring methodology, here are the group rankings and my tasting notes for each:



No. 1
30 pts

1996 Ridge, Sonoma, Geyserville Vineyard &#8211; Color was an almost brown shade of deep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blind Tasting Group Scoring Methodology</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/03/blind-tasting-group-scoring-methodology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve posted some results from a couple of blind tastings and realized that most people may not know how our wine group does its scoring to rank the wines we&#8217;re tasting.  The rankings we determine don&#8217;t relate to anything in the wine world and really only show how we, as a group, rate a particular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blind Tasting of Value-Priced 2005 Bordeaux</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/02/results-from-value-priced-2005-bordeaux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the group results from our tasting tonight of value-priced 2005 Bordeaux along with some of my tasting notes. None are first growth. One is grand cru and most were grand vin. With the exception of the Haut Medoc, all are East Bank I believe.
No. 1 Reignac 2005 Bordeaux Superieur Vendanges
$25 (WS 90)
Dark purple [...]]]></description>
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