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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>Season&#8217;s Greetings from Napa Valley</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/12/seasons-greetings-from-napa-valley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, I drove up along route 29 through Napa Valley and saw all the beautiful lights along the way. I just had to share this little compilation of holiday lights. Happy Holidays.

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		<title>Blogger Blend-off at Conn Creek Winery</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/12/blogger-blend-off-at-conn-creek-winery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would you pay $95 for a bottle of wine? How about if that bottle of wine was one which you custom blended for your own tastes? Yesterday, I participated in a very unique experience in Napa Valley. Thea Dwelle (@winebratsf) organized a dozen wine bloggers, including myself, @FrankLovesWine, @DanicaSattui, @DrncPno, @BrixChick_Liza, @marcygordon, @spiritandwine, @DreamWildly, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Napa Cab Tasting at Chateau Montelena</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/11/napa-cab-tasting-at-chateau-montelena/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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Yesterday at Chateau Montelena, my friend, Rick Bakas, organized a tasting of current vintages of Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon priced under $50. Turnout was great with about 20 people from nearly 15 wineries in attendance. It was a great opportunity to meet and network with other social marketing folks, as well as drink some great [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>It&#8217;s official: I&#8217;ve landed a new job!</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/09/its-official-ive-landed-a-new-job/</link>
		<comments>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/09/its-official-ive-landed-a-new-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I sit here on the lanai of the 25th floor room in the Ilikai hotel here in Hawaii overlooking the beach, palm trees and azure blue ocean, I remind myself that I need to truly relax and enjoy this downtime because it may be a long time before I get to relax like this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boy&#8217;s Night &#8211; Indian Themed</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/05/boys-night-indian-themed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 20:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food & Wine]]></category>
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How many times have you worked yourself into a frenzy preparing for a special dinner or large dinner party only to be let down by the whole affair? Last Thursday was Boy&#8217;s Night and despite all the careful preparation, it just didn&#8217;t measure up to my expectations, well, at least the food portion. A couple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2006 Robert Foley Claret</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/04/2006-robert-foley-claret/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite possibly the wine of the evening last night. This Claret seemed to go with the flank steak much better than the Barolo and I really enjoyed this one. Grown on Howell Mountain, this is one of Robert Foley&#8217;s most renowned wines and for good reason. It&#8217;s a big, bold red that&#8217;s showing great structure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Maxood&#8217;s Extraordinary Birthday</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/04/dr-maxoods-extraordinary-birthday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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Sheri and I were honored to be invited to Steve Maxood&#8217;s Birthday celebration at Wild Ginger Restaurant last Friday night. Steve&#8217;s parties are somewhat legendary amongst my wine friends and he certainly did not disappoint. We prepared for an evening of heavy pouring by checking into the Sherton Hotel just a few blocks from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1996 Screaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/04/1996-screaming-eagle-cabernet-sauvignon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday&#8217;s birthday celebration with Steve Maxood was my first opportunity to taste a truly cult wine, a 1996 Screaming Eagle.
The question that I&#8217;ve been asked the most: What did the &#8216;96 Screaming Eagle taste like and was it worth the money? First off, it really needed decanting early in the evening and straight from [...]]]></description>
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