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	<title>Drinking Outside The Box &#187; Languedoc</title>
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		<title>Chardonnay from France, Australia &amp; New Zealand &#8211; and what happens when you blend Chablis and Mâcon?</title>
		<link>http://www.simonwoods.com/2010/07/27/chardonnay-from-france-australia-new-zealand-and-what-happens-when-you-blend-chablis-and-macon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Louis Moreau Chablis 2008, Burgundy, France (£9.99 Marks &#38; Spencer) Has the lean, keen green apple backbone you expect of Chablis, along with a pleasant nutty character, but it lacks the substance to stand up to the structure. OK, but not fine. B(-) Louis Latour Mâcon-Lugny 2009, Burgundy, France (£8.99 Majestic &#8211; £7.99 when you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Languedoc whites plus a South-West interloper</title>
		<link>http://www.simonwoods.com/2010/07/26/languedoc-whites-plus-a-south-west-interloper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[La Différence Viognier-Muscat 2009, IGP Pays d&#8217;Oc, France (£5.99 Tesco) Pure, fresh and honest wine, with the rich oily/peachy edge of Viognier combining with grapey freshness of Muscat to pleasing effect. B(+) Creyssels Languedoc-Picpoul de Pinet 2009, France (£7.75 Stone Vine &#38; Sun) Richer than many Picpouls, with pear and peach fruit to the fore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A selection of Rosés from Bordeaux, Provence, the Languedoc, Chile &amp; South Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.simonwoods.com/2010/07/16/a-selection-of-roses-from-bordeaux-provence-the-languedoc-chile-south-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bordeaux]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saint Roch les Vignes Côtes de Provence Rosé 2009, France (£6.99 Majestic) Honest and tasty, quite deeply coloured rosé with rich, slightly jammy plummy berry flesh, quite full but just a touch simple. B- Château Coussin Sainte Victoire Côtes de Provence Rosé 2009, France (£13.99 Oddbins) More subtle and crisper, finer-boned, with touches of citrus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quite lovely Languedoc reds from an advertising legend</title>
		<link>http://www.simonwoods.com/2010/06/16/quite-lovely-languedoc-reds-from-an-advertising-legend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simonwoods.com/2010/06/16/quite-lovely-languedoc-reds-from-an-advertising-legend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carignan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grenache]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minervois]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advertising maven John Hegarty &#8211; sorry &#8211; SIR John Hegarty needs no introduction for those in his field of influence. And the good news is that his field of influence is spreading ever wider- he&#8217;s due to do a presentation to the Institute of Masters of Wine about how wine should lose its mystery but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Southern French wines from James Nicholson</title>
		<link>http://www.simonwoods.com/2010/05/11/six-southern-french-wines-from-james-nicholson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simonwoods.com/2010/05/11/six-southern-french-wines-from-james-nicholson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 08:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carignan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Languedoc]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All these are from a tasting I was supposed to be doing for James Nicholson in Northern Ireland in early May 2010 – it was postponed due to volcanic ash travel problems but is due to be rescheduled very soon&#8230; (and it&#8217;s also a video I did in my office bunker, having been banished by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four drafts of the warm south &#8211; a quartet from the Languedoc</title>
		<link>http://www.simonwoods.com/2010/01/29/four-drafts-of-the-warm-south-a-quartet-from-the-languedoc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simonwoods.com/2010/01/29/four-drafts-of-the-warm-south-a-quartet-from-the-languedoc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Languedoc]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[La Cuvée Mythique Blanc des Vignerons de la Mediterranée 2008, Vin de Pays d’Oc, France (£7.99 The Co-op – down to £3.99 10th Feb – 1st Mar) (Would love to give a  link to the two Cuvée Mythique wines, but in classic French fashion, there&#8217;s no obvious web site&#8230;) Nice combination of aromatic complexity, fleshy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assorted reds &#8211; Lagrein, Chianti, Corbières &amp; WA Shiraz</title>
		<link>http://www.simonwoods.com/2010/01/21/assorted-reds-lagrein-chianti-corbieres-wa-shiraz/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simonwoods.com/2010/01/21/assorted-reds-lagrein-chianti-corbieres-wa-shiraz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alto Adige]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Languedoc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lower Great Southern]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cantina Tramin Lagrein 2008, Alto Adige, Italy (£11.49 Hallgarten Druitt, www.wineman.co.uk, www.everywine.co.uk) Refreshing, genuinely light-to-medium-bodied red, almost Dolcetto-like, with crunchy, earthy black fruit (especially cherry) and fresh, sausage-friendly finish. B+ The Society’s Exhibition Chianti Classico 2007, Tuscany, Italy (£11.95 The Wine Society) Modern and fresh, but has this lovely velvety Morello cherry, cherry kernels and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muscat de Rivesaltes, Botrytis Riesling and Tokaj &#8211; sticky, stickier, stickiest</title>
		<link>http://www.simonwoods.com/2009/11/11/muscat-de-rivesaltes-botrytis-riesling-and-tokaj-sticky-stickier-stickiest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simonwoods.com/2009/11/11/muscat-de-rivesaltes-botrytis-riesling-and-tokaj-sticky-stickier-stickiest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barossa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are surrounded by cake, what do you do? Open three sweet wines&#8230; Mont Tauch Muscat de Rivesaltes NV, France (£5.99 per half Morrisons) Plump juicy grape and barley sugar, a hint of rose petal, maybe a touch of heat from the fortification, but overall this is very friendly, sticky wine – perfect for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>La Vigneronne Mark II</title>
		<link>http://www.simonwoods.com/2009/07/09/la-vigneronne-mark-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simonwoods.com/2009/07/09/la-vigneronne-mark-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For anyone in London looking to find out what was hot and what was not in southern France in the 1990s, the place to head was down Old Brompton Road to La Vigneronne. Liz &#38; Mike Berry&#8217;s poky little shop excelled in other French regions, and stocked some of the top names of California and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A taste of the warm south &#8211; but white</title>
		<link>http://www.simonwoods.com/2009/02/02/a-taste-of-the-warm-south-but-white/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simonwoods.com/2009/02/02/a-taste-of-the-warm-south-but-white/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Languedoc]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t know why, but on one of the chilliest weekends in recent years, we&#8217;ve by-passed red wines and been sipping and supping white wines, all from southern France. It&#8217;s a vast and varied region, and as with the reds, trying to pigeon-hole them under one banner is somewhat difficult. But the best do have something [...]]]></description>
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