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	<description>A blog on wine and other things that alter my mind</description>
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		<title>Of Course Wine Ratings are Variable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leonard Mlodinow asks in the Wall Street Journal: &#8220;As a consumer, accepting that one taster&#8217;s tobacco and leather is another&#8217;s blueberries and currants, that a 91 and a 96 rating are interchangeable, or that a wine winning a gold medal in one competition is likely thrown in the pooper in others presents a challenge. If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.finalanalysis.org/?p=291</link>
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		<title>Stein&#8217;s Law, Australia &amp; Cult Wine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Hello, THUMP THUMP, is this thing on? OK&#8230;) &#8220;If something cannot go on forever, then will stop.&#8221; The wine business has begun to test the limits of Stein&#8217;s Law at both the high and the low end of the market. Last week the Winemaker&#8217;s Federation of Australia along with three other trade groups published a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.finalanalysis.org/?p=287</link>
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		<title>The New York Times has a Wine Club</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via Felix Salmon, and of course the New York Times, we learn that the New York Times has a wine club. The Times sold the rights to their name to Global Wine Company, who will manage the club under the Times name in the same fashion they have done for Omaha Steaks or Celebrity Chef [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.finalanalysis.org/?p=284</link>
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		<title>5 Stars for Restaurant Eugene</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Creative Loafing gives 5 Stars to Restaurant Eugene. I, for one, am thrilled.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.finalanalysis.org/?p=279</link>
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		<title>Citysearch Sucks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who comes up with these lists? Nothing against the nominees, but where is KrogBar? Holeman &#038; Finch? Varasano&#8217;s has great pizza but is not a wine bar. Why is a private club even on the list? If being a restaurant and having a bar is all that matters, then where is Aria? Canoe? Ecco? You&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.finalanalysis.org/?p=277</link>
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		<title>Social Media = PR?: What is the fallout of &#8220;A Really Goode Job&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Count me with Steve Heimhoff on this one. I like and respect Hardy Wallace quite a lot. I think it was a master stroke to keep his quest for A Really Goode Job separate from his main brand, Dirty South Wine. If he hadn&#8217;t won, he wouldn&#8217;t have tarnished his brand the way some applicants [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.finalanalysis.org/?p=275</link>
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		<title>Links for you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Other bloggers do this, so I can too! Starbucks is opening a wine bar. Given that their coffee is over-roasted and lacking in subtlety, what sorts of wine do you think they will serve? If you write a wine list, don&#8217;t put more than 150 selections on it. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll be shocked to discover [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.finalanalysis.org/?p=273</link>
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		<title>Hardy Wallace is Dirty For Goode</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looks like the Murphy-Goode people aren&#8217;t as stoopid as I thought they might be. What I want to know is, what offers were made to the other finalists? GO HARDY!]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.finalanalysis.org/?p=271</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Ultimately consumers and the market will assess its quality and decide its fate.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m calling bullshit. I don&#8217;t really care whether James Laube likes Shafer One Point Five. For that matter, I don&#8217;t personally care what Laube thinks about any wine. His palate and mine clearly favor different styles. But when it comes to the viability of wine in the marketplace, the man is a giant! His scores [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.finalanalysis.org/?p=269</link>
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		<title>East Lake Blind Tasting &#8211; July 13th &#8211; The Lineup</title>
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		<link>http://blog.finalanalysis.org/?p=257</link>
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