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		<title>Where’s Hardy? Wallace AWOL? Not Goode! Plus: Whine Radio? Say Wha!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the Where’s Waldo books? A modern classic series back in the Age of Print. Big hardcovers that opened to panoramic cartoons of countless people in quirky settings engaged in practically every possible human behavior except fornication. And somewhere on every spread stood Waldo, hiding in plain sight: round-frame glasses, goofy-cool striped hat, smile. The idea [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wineskewer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7368977&#038;post=379&#038;subd=wineskewer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fall Forward? Palate Present?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Labor Day has come and gone. It&#8217;s now dark by 8:00. Time to stop wearing (if not drinking) white. I&#8217;m all for pushing ahead to Fall. But first, must clean the cobwebs off the blog by sharing some summer leftovers and good news about things ahead&#8230; Looking back, best white wine I had this summer was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wineskewer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7368977&#038;post=365&#038;subd=wineskewer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Frappe: Riesling as the People’s Wine {&amp; More}</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Riesling rocks. Life is not a blind tasting. Nor should it be. I was delightfully reminded of this slice of vino-veritas this week when running a wine bar at a cocktail party for a group of about 100 NY metro alumni of a prominent business school. It was a completely unscientific and yet utterly real-world [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wineskewer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7368977&#038;post=358&#038;subd=wineskewer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Great News! Cash for Clunkers Program Extended to Wine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen up, wine lovers: Fermented grape juice and hulking SUVs have something in common besides ethyl alcohol as an ingredient. The federal Cash for Clunkers program has been extended to wine. The Wine Skewer has learned that thanks to secret negotiations hammered out this weekend over copious quantities of nondescript Merlot at an undisclosed wine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wineskewer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7368977&#038;post=351&#038;subd=wineskewer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now Pouring: Have Ethics Become the Difference between Wine Bloggers and Wine Writers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the pleasant side effects of being a wine professional is the opportunities that pop up involving our favorite beverage. Take, for example, one that arrived over the weekend. A fairly large, fine-wine-oriented distributor was looking for volunteers to pour at their portfolio tasting on a Monday, in Manhattan, in September. Said the email: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wineskewer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7368977&#038;post=336&#038;subd=wineskewer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is it Finally Sexy Time for Wine? New Import Portfolio Goes Straight for the Crotch</title>
		<link>http://wineskewer.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/is-it-finally-sexy-time-for-wine-new-import-portfolio-goes-straight-for-the-crotch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was bound to happen. Ever since porn star Savanna Samson started her own wine label—Sogno Uno, in Italy with the 2005 vintage—it was only a matter of time before a full-frontal line of sexually charged wines was unleashed. Thanks to the folks at Porneauxxx Imports, a brand new firm based in Hoboken, New Jersey, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wineskewer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7368977&#038;post=298&#038;subd=wineskewer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mergers &amp; Mayhem in the Wine Biz as Economy Continues to Swoon</title>
		<link>http://wineskewer.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/mergers-mayhem-in-the-wine-biz-as-economy-continues-to-swoon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s July, and America is still sweltering amid the extreme high pressure front of the Great Economic Downturn. Wine is not immune. In fact, the econo-doldrums have prompted some surprising, even outright bizarre, measures on the part of wine makers and marketers. To wit, consider the following wine ventures that the Wine Skewer—exclusively, mais oui—has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wineskewer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7368977&#038;post=293&#038;subd=wineskewer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bunny Talk {or Now, For Something Completely Different&#8230;}</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HIM: Honey, have you seen the Rabbit? HER: Which one? HIM: What do you mean, which one? The Rabbit. It’s black, has clamps as ears, a lever on top, big Teflon screw&#8230; Art wants to do a Pinot-palooza during the barbecue. I promised I’d bring the über-corkscrew. HER: Ah, you mean your Rabbit. HIM: Well, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wineskewer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7368977&#038;post=283&#038;subd=wineskewer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jon &amp; Kate Shocker: Real Reason for Split Not the Fame, Not Affairs&#8230; It Was All About the Wine!</title>
		<link>http://wineskewer.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/jon-kate-shocker-real-reason-for-split-not-the-fame-not-affairs-it-was-all-about-the-wine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Couch Potato America reclined and recoiled the other night upon learning that the Reality TV stars of Jon &#38; Kate Plus 8 have filed for divorce. The split can not come as too great a surprise, what with mounting tabloid rumors, not to mention the cumulative stress of raising twins and sextuplets amid the relentless [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wineskewer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7368977&#038;post=277&#038;subd=wineskewer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catching the Trendiest Wines Around {this Saturday @ICE in NYC}</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am extremely fortunate to be affiliated with the Institute of Culinary Education in Manhattan, where I do both private/corporate events and teach. For those in the vicinity, I have a class this Saturday (June 27) called “Catch the Trendiest Wines” {still a few seats available @ $80; if interested, click to register}. I thought it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wineskewer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7368977&#038;post=259&#038;subd=wineskewer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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