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		<title>Should I Have a Cellar? (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2012/05/should-i-have-a-cellar-pt-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is second part of a two part article on wine cellars. You may want to read the first part before you read this. As promised, the second part of this article has some more specific questions about the reasons for cellaring wine. Q: What are the ideal conditions to properly store my wine collection? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should I Have a Cellar? (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2012/04/should-i-have-a-cellar-pt-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first part of a two part article. I ended up with so much to write about on this topic, it seemed too much for just one article. Does this sound familiar to you? It’s the weekend, let’s visit some tasting rooms. Mmm, I really like this wine. Let’s get a few bottles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duh: Natural Corks Greener than Synthetics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never been a big fan of synthetic corks. Even after just a couple of years, they seem to be more difficult to remove than natural corks and they&#8217;re just one step away from screw-top closures in my book. I never believed that the potential faults of synthetic closures—oxidation in synthetic corks and reduction in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are millennials really your target market?</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2012/04/are-millennials-really-your-target-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economy is making a slow recovery. How do I know? Well, it&#8217;s certainly not because I have clients lining up with work for me. I personally have seen few signs of growth and the number of lease signs I see in local strip malls would suggest otherwise. But a recent poll by the NPD [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Experience Necessary</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adding sugar to the must before fermentation is called chaptalization and is done in some cooler climate states to compensate for low sugar levels in the harvested grapes. Chaptalization increases the amount of alcohol produced and generally improves body and mouthfeel. The other day I was attending an event at a local (read Woodinville) tasting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Indefinite Hiatus</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2010/11/on-indefinite-hiatus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m taking a much needed break from blogging and social media in general. For a year, I wrote and tweeted for others, about topics for which I had little passion. How could I really get excited about a corkscrew, a can of nitrogen or yet another medal for Pinot Grigio? During that time, I also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On My Soapbox</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2010/06/on-my-soapbox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started to write this article several times in the past, but usually ended up deleting it. My sense of propriety told me that it&#8217;s not the way to change behaviors. Lately, however, it seems that in order to bring something like this to light, I need to lower my standards of decorum to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>17 Interesting Blog &amp; Video Topics for YOUR Winery</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2010/01/17-interesting-blog-video-topics-for-your-winery/</link>
		<comments>http://bricksofwine.com/2010/01/17-interesting-blog-video-topics-for-your-winery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever get writer&#8217;s block? I know I often do, but I can&#8217;t imagine how difficult it would be if I didn&#8217;t have a knack for writing. Such is the case for many small wineries where the same person doing the winemaking is sometimes the blog writer as well. I&#8217;ve been asked, &#8220;How do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are we diluting domestic wine?</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/12/are-we-diluting-domestic-wine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I&#8217;m not talking about adding water to the must and juice, but rather metaphorically, are domestic producers diversifying too much and producing too many varietals? This morning I heard a story on NPR about how the Internet and online media has created a cultural gap and changed how we collectively relate to one another. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Easy ways to improve the tasting room experience</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/11/5-easy-ways-to-improve-the-tasting-room-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/11/5-easy-ways-to-improve-the-tasting-room-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My good friends, James and Kimberly (@UrWineGuy), along with Kim&#8217;s mom, their daughter and my wife, Sheri, visited this past weekend and we spent Saturday tasting in the Sonoma Valley and Sunday tasting in the Napa Valley. Now that I&#8217;m working in the industry, I look at tasting rooms a little differently and with a [...]]]></description>
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