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		<title>Zinfandel &#8211; a heritage grape worth preserving</title>
		<link>http://www.wine-muse.com/2012/01/26/zinfandel-a-heritage-grape-worth-preserving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 21st annual Zinfandel Festival in San Francisco this week, sponsored by the Association of Zinfandel Advocates &#38; Producers (ZAP), highlights why California’s signature grape is worth preserving.  Zinfandel is not just the charmingly fruity wine that we all love, it is a chameleon of a grape that expresses its diverse origins and reveals true complexity and signature spiciness with age.  ZAP works to preserve this diversity by sponsoring a long-term zinfandel research program &#8211; conducted by the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) &#8211; whose aim is to find ...]]></description>
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		<title>A Zinfandel Heritage Vineyard in Coombsville – R.W. Moore Vineyard</title>
		<link>http://www.wine-muse.com/2012/01/23/a-zinfandel-heritage-vineyard-in-coombsville-r-w-moore-vineyard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zinfandel has been grown in California since the 1850’s and, unlike many of the early-planted varietals, zinfandel has maintained its popularity to this day, representing the 2nd most widely planted red wine grape in the state.  We love youthful zinfandel for its fruity charm, but it’s the old vine zinfandels that we treasure for their intensity of flavor, structure, spiciness and most of all, expression of terroir.
To record and preserve the diversity of zinfandel expression, the University of California, Davis &#8211; with major support from the Association of Zinfandel Advocates ...]]></description>
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		<title>The un-clonable Caldwell of Coombsville</title>
		<link>http://www.wine-muse.com/2012/01/05/the-un-clonable-caldwell-of-coombsville/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Irreverent, irrepressible and incorrigable &#8211; that about sums up John Caldwell and Napa Valley wouldn&#8217;t be the same without him.  No other person outside of Napa City founder and Coombsville namesake Nathan Coombs is more closely associated with the Coombsville wine region than Caldwell, and it started really as opportunism to develop land as tony real estate in the emergent Napa Valley tourism destination in the late 1970&#8242;s.  He was flying high then with his successful shoe stores in the valley, he says, touring around in his Cadillac Seville ragtop ...]]></description>
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		<title>Napa Valley compleat with Coombsville AVA</title>
		<link>http://www.wine-muse.com/2011/12/27/napa-valley-compleat-with-coombsville-ava/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Coombsville AVA became official on December 14, 2011 but the region was always an integral part of high quality Napa Valley wines since the  1870&#8242;s and, more recently, has been high on the radar of insiders.  Considering its long history, volcanic effluvial soils and ideal climate, the granting of the formal AVA is a mere formality.
Coombsville&#8217;s low profile may have been a result of its location &#8211; about 1,360 farmed acres just east of the large city of Napa, obscured by a hill of residential homes which gives way ...]]></description>
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		<title>Napa Valley sparkles with a luxe food &amp; wine &#8220;Camp&#8221; at Schramsberg Vineyards</title>
		<link>http://www.wine-muse.com/2011/11/15/napa-valley-sparkles-with-a-luxe-food-wine-camp-at-schramsberg-vineyards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When immigrant Jacob Schram searched the relatively virgin Napa Valley in the early 1860’s to plant vines, he searched for steep hillsides that he knew from his youth growing up near the Rhine River would yield the highest quality grapes.  He found his vineyard site in the foothills south of Calistoga.  The wines of Schramsberg would achieve such renown for their quality that author Robert Louis Stevenson was inspired to declare on the veranda of Schram’s home that “wine is bottled poetry.”  After Jacob Schram&#8217;s death in 1905, the estate ...]]></description>
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		<title>A Chef for his generation – Aaron London of Ubuntu Restaurant</title>
		<link>http://www.wine-muse.com/2011/11/12/a-chef-for-his-generation-%e2%80%93-aaron-london-of-ubuntu-restaurant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>winemuse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
Ubuntu Executive Chef Aaron London learned about his James Beard nomination for Rising Star Chef, not from a phone call, but on Twitter – nine simultaneous tweets from friends.  This young 27-year old CIA Hyde Park alumnus already has back-to-back Michelin stars for Ubuntu Restaurant under his belt, and several years working at renowned restaurants in France, Canada and the U.S. including Daniel and Blue Hill at Stone Barns in New York, but he has only just begun.
Ubuntu is a restaurant that focuses on vegetables as a culinary specialty, using ...]]></description>
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		<title>A new breed rising in Calistoga &#8211; Kelly Fleming Wines</title>
		<link>http://www.wine-muse.com/2011/10/29/a-new-breed-rising-in-calistoga-kelly-fleming-wines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After taking a back seat for decades to the more famous sub-appellations in the Napa Valley, Calistoga is quietly becoming the destination of choice for producers seeking terroir-driven wines in a down-to-earth environment.
Kelly Fleming could have invested anywhere in the Napa Valley for her namesake brand but chose to make Calistoga her home, seeing the potential for high quality winegrowing in Simmons Canyon off Silverado Trail.  The watershed here creates one of the few alluvial fans on the eastern side of the Napa Valley and her location, farther and deeper ...]]></description>
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		<title>When Champagne isn&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://www.wine-muse.com/2011/09/29/when-champagne-isnt-a-wine-truth-in-labeling-pov/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under the terms of the Australia-European Community Agreement on Trade in Wine, on the first of this month, Australia became the latest in a long line of countries that prohibit outright the use of the name “Champagne” on the label of domestically-made sparkling wine.  Champagne is a venerable protected appellation (or place) of origin in France which produces high quality sparkling wine based on unique location and winemaking techniques.  In the European Community (“EC”) and in other countries which respect appellation of origin through trade agreements, only wines made from ...]]></description>
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		<title>Kenzo Estate:  Napa Valley luxury wine through a lens of Japanese culture</title>
		<link>http://www.wine-muse.com/2011/08/13/kenzo-estate-napa-valley-luxury-wine-through-a-lens-of-japanese-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>winemuse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenzo Tsujimoto, Chairman of publicly held Capcom Co., Ltd., is the owner of Kenzo Estate, a 15,000 case production winery in the eastern mountains of Napa Valley.  His luxury cabernet sauvignon wines are made with the best talent money can buy but his goal wasn’t to create an exclusive wine that few can buy.  Like the successful video game products his company sells worldwide, his wines are approachable and accessible.
Tsujimoto wasn’t one of the those wealthy businessmen seeking to create a monument to himself in the Napa Valley.  While he ...]]></description>
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		<title>Downtown Napa &#8211; Gateway to the Napa Valley</title>
		<link>http://www.wine-muse.com/2011/05/19/downtown-napa-gateway-to-the-napa-valley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 05:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the first building to be erected in the Napa  Valley in 1848, the downtown area of the city of Napa grew rapidly over the following three decades to support the growing commerce arising from the abundance of grains and grapes grown in the fertile valley, and increasing tourism.  Even in the 1870’s, Napa  Valley had become a popular weekend or permanent retreat for San Franciscans attracted to the beautiful scenery, mild climate, medicinal springs and convenience to the metropolis.  Visitors would take one of the daily steamboats ...]]></description>
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