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		<title>Lodi in Los Angeles (Again)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just last month, we attended the trade and media session of the Lodi in Los Angeles wine tasting event hosted by Ian Blackburn&#8217;s wineLA organization at the Marina City Club in Marina del Rey. We had attended the first Lodi in LA event a year ago and we loved the wines we tasted. This year&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>STARS of Santa Barbara</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2017 00:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 18th, we attended the STARS of Santa Barbara Wine tasting event at the Leica Flagship Store &#38; Gallery in Beverly Hills, hosted by Ian Blackburn&#8217;s wineLA organization. The weather outside was wet that evening, but the wines were dry and the setting was picture perfect. We were able to browse around the Leica [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>STARS of California Wine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2016 21:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 25th, we attended the STARS of California Wine tasting event in Beverly Hills, hosted by Ian Blackburn&#8217;s wineLA organization. We enjoyed some excellent California wines that day, but our favorite wine of the tasting was the one we tasted first and last that day. Some of the most notable wines, for us, at [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Elevating Zinfandel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2016 23:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[California Zinfandel dates back to at least the 1800s and, by the end of that century, was the most widely planted varietal in California. The Zin vineyards survived Prohibition by selling grapes for the &#8220;home market&#8221; and religious ceremonial use. By the 1970s, a Zin production accident resulted in a sweet White Zinfandel wine that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>STARS of Napa Valley 2016</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Napa Valley is one of the most prestigious wine areas of the world. Does it deserve that status? The answer is an emphatic &#8220;yes&#8221;, and we were pleased to attend the trade tasting session this past Wednesday for STARS of Napa Valley 2016, planned and flawlessly executed by Ian Blackburn&#8217;s wineLA organization at the Peninsula [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebration of Harvest 2015</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2015 23:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We took off Friday morning to make the quick trip from Los Angeles to the Santa Ynez Valley to get a jump on an extended weekend of wine tasting and fun. After hitting a few wineries that afternoon, we spent a relaxing evening dining at Petros, located in the Fess Parker Wine Country Inn &#038; [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Pence Ranch</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2015 06:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a busy summer it has been! We dropped two of our three college boys off and only one remains at home for a few more weeks. We had some interesting travels the past 2&#8211;3 months and now it&#8217;s time to tell you some of the stories. But first, some of the wine. We made [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Release the Killer Bees</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We interviewed Ian Blackburn two years ago as he was celebrating the creation of Beekeeper Cellars and the inaugural release of his excellent 2009 Beekeeper Zinfandel, so we were eager to attend a recent event marking the release of his third vintage, the 2011 Beekeeper Zinfandel, a single vineyard designate wine from the Madrone Spring [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Traveling Potluck</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 23:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We may not have been posting the last few months, but that doesn&#8217;t mean we haven&#8217;t been actively furthering our imbibing cause. Hell no! The Wine Imbiber and I have been attending a plethora of events (Rich is just busy just tending to his day job right now&#8212;write ups will follow eventually). In the meantime, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Stars of Cabernet 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As with wine, a journalist&#8217;s notes improve with age. Well, not really, as you&#8217;ll see. Last November, Ian Blackburn of Learn About Wine invited me to his press luncheon before the opening of his most recent Stars of Cabernet wine tasting event. It was a great opportunity to spend some time over a very nice [&#8230;]]]></description>
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