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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>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 here [...]]]></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>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>
		<comments>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/04/passport-to-woodinville-2009-wrap-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Picks]]></category>
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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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		<title>The Passion (for wine, that is)</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/04/the-passion-for-wine-that-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I read Tom Wark&#8217;s Fermentation post on the 20 Things Every Wine Lover Should Do. His list should be required reading for anyone even remotely interested in wine. After reading it, I started thinking of my own personal list and that got me thinking about why I&#8217;m such a wine lover and sometimes a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taste Washington 2009 &#8211; Hits &amp; Misses</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/04/taste-washington-2009-hits-misses/</link>
		<comments>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/04/taste-washington-2009-hits-misses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last large tasting event I attended was the San Diego Food and Wine Festival back in November, so I was looking forward to the Taste. What really made it tough was the weather this past Sunday. It was so nice outside for the first time this Spring that all I really wanted to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1996 Screaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/04/1996-screaming-eagle-cabernet-sauvignon/</link>
		<comments>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/04/1996-screaming-eagle-cabernet-sauvignon/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<title>Napa Weekend: Swanson Vineyards</title>
		<link>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/03/napa-weekend-swanson-vineyards/</link>
		<comments>http://bricksofwine.com/2009/03/napa-weekend-swanson-vineyards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swanson Vineyards was the second destination on our weekend trip to Napa. It was also the only winery were I paid full price for the tasting and after noting how much many of the other wineries charged, at $55 per person, it was among the most expensive tastings I have ever encountered. I&#8217;m sure there [...]]]></description>
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