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		<title>Taste Washington 2011 Wrap Up</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2011/03/taste-washington-2011-wrap-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a difficult decision to attend Taste Washington 2011 because my heart just wasn&#8217;t into tasting wine at this particular time, much less write about it. Partly due to a little burn-out on blogging about wine and partly because the wineries I write about here in Washington rarely seem to appreciate the mentions. Granted, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Late &#8217;80s Value Bordeaux Tasting</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2010/12/late-80s-value-bordeaux-tasting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, our Mercer Island wine group got together at Bob&#8217;s house and eight of us tasted a variety of Bordeaux wines from &#8217;86, &#8217;88&#8242; and &#8217;89. The wines were all from Bob&#8217;s cellar and from various appellations in the Bordeaux region so it didn&#8217;t really concentrate on a particular appellation. These were mostly wines that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Riding the White Horse (with a burger in hand)</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2010/09/riding-the-white-horse-with-a-burger-in-hand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend offered a rare opportunity to taste a vertical of one of the two class A Premier Grande Cru producers from St. Émilion: Château Cheval Blanc. There were, in fact, 34 bottles from 22 vintages including a 6 liter bottle of the 1988 vintage. According to Nicole Kosta, one of the sexy sommeliers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better Late Than Never: WBC10</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2010/08/better-late-than-never-wbc10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wine Blogger&#8217;s Conference 2010 The Wine Blogger&#8217;s Conference was over a month ago and I&#8217;m just now getting around to posting something. I know, lame, but in my own defense, I have over 1.5 hours of video from that weekend and I just haven&#8217;t had time to go through all of it. Heck, I&#8217;m still [...]]]></description>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ridge Lytton Springs TTL</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2010/01/ridge-lytton-springs-ttl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This evening, Ridge Lytton Springs hosted a Twitter Taste Live event at their tasting room in Geyserville, CA. There was a great turn-out with lots of remote participation. Here&#8217;s a little video of the event. Hope to see everyone at the next one. Some more video from the event taken with my iPhone are posted [...]]]></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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		<description><![CDATA[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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		<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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		<title>A Visit to JM Cellars</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/08/a-visit-to-jm-cellars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday morning, while having coffee with Teri Citterman (@Citterman), who writes for Wine Press Northwest and Northwest Best Places Travel Books, she mentioned her appointment later that day with John Bigelow of JM Cellars. When she asked me if I wanted to meet her there, I thought, why not? So I managed to invite myself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passport to Woodinville 2009 Wrap Up</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/04/passport-to-woodinville-2009-wrap-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was a great day to be out visiting the garagiste-styled wineries in the business parks of Woodinville, Washington. Unlike visiting the nearby wine regions of Eastern Washington, Willamette Valley, Oregon or even Napa, there are no long travel times between each winery. It wasn&#8217;t raining so we simply parked the car and walked from [...]]]></description>
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