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		<title>Bottle Shock or Bust?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The movie Bottle Shock was primed to be the next &#8220;Sideways&#8221; for the wine industry. Looked to have a stellar cast for a low budget flick and a nice true story regarding the California wine industry to get wino&#8217;s excited&#8230; but how did it fare with online wine bloggers is the real question?
Tom Wark at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winecolumns.com/bottle-shock-or-bust/</link>
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		<title>Wine Spectator Is In The News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All over the web we are hearing about Wine Spectator falsely &#8220;awarding&#8221; an Award of Excellence. Robin Goldstein, setup a fake restaurant and applied for the prestigious honor. He quickly found out his $250.00 application fee resulted in recognition by Wine Spectator of his non-existant restaurant. What a great story!
Get more wine news.
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		<link>http://www.winecolumns.com/wine-spectator-is-in-the-news/</link>
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		<title>Food and Wine Pairings - Can you go wrong?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The gourment &#38; wine industry puts too much pressure on perfecting the &#8220;art&#8221; of food and wine pairings. All too often we hear &#8220;red wine goes with meat, white wine with fish.&#8221; I guess this would make sense if we all had the same exact palate when it came to food and wine pairings, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winecolumns.com/food-and-wine-pairings-can-you-go-wrong/</link>
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		<title>Wine Videos - Get Used to Them!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can&#8217;t swirl, sniff or spit, through wine videos - but the industry is booming. Web video is giving the wine world an opportunity to spread its wings from the traditional tasting rooms to the message boards. A simple Google search for Wine Videos is evident that web video is hear to stay in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winecolumns.com/wine-videos-get-used-to-them/</link>
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		<title>Join a Wine Club - Top 10 List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Matt Apsokardu wrote a nice intro piece noting the benefits to joining a wine club - Top 10 Reasons to Join a Wine Club.
Why do you join wine clubs? Inventory? Exploring? New stories?
It&#8217;s interesting to see the different people that give wine clubs a shot and I&#8217;m currently reading up on wine club experiences all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winecolumns.com/join-a-wine-club-top-10-list/</link>
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		<title>Favorite Wine Articles of the Week (FWAW)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a busy week, but I had my eye on two particular columns this week and wanted to pass them along for your viewing pleasure&#8230;
Screaming Eagle Snubs the Wine Trade
Caribbean Wine Diaries
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		<title>Wine Marketing Newsletter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I consider myself more of a consumer based blog reader in the wine industry, there is a nice growing newsletter coming together at WineMarketer.com.
The reason I am liking it, is the range of professionals contributing it. It&#8217;s the whose who of the online wine and wine marketing world.
Here is a lineup of contributors:
Paul Mabray, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winecolumns.com/wine-marketing-newsletter/</link>
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		<title>5 Best Wine Blogs for Men</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Five (5) Best Wine Blogs for Men from WineColumns.com
#5 - Tom Wark&#8217;s Fermentation - Tom is a PR professional located in the heart of wine country. It&#8217;s more of a corporate blog, but definitely worth checking out to see what is new and hot in the wine world.
#4 - What Would Mikey Drink Wine Reviews - [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winecolumns.com/5-best-wine-blogs-for-men/</link>
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		<title>Wine.com Tattle Tales - ClassicWines.com Kicks Them Off Their Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recent outrage has been voiced at Wine.com by the online wine community and the industry alike. Performing what sounds like an entrapment scandle they ordered wine from competing online merchants to states that are illegal to ship to. Once the products crossed the border to Washington (the illegal state) they released documentation and reports as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winecolumns.com/winecom-tattle-tales-classicwinescom-kicks-them-off-their-site/</link>
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		<title>Foie Gras - Quit Your Bitchin&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Foie Gras - I know it&#8217;s not a grape varietal, but food goes hand in hand with wine. For those new to this term, Foie Gras is:
&#8220;The liver of a duck or a goose that has been specially fattened by gavage.&#8221;
Sounds delicious right? Well for most folks it is, but animal rights activist are more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winecolumns.com/foie-gras-quit-your-bitchin/</link>
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