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		<title>Top of the Pops: Salon might be the champagne of Champagnes</title>
		<link>http://boozemuse.com/2009/10/26/top-of-the-pops-salon-might-be-the-champagne-of-champagnes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eugene-Aimé Salon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Launois Pere & Fils Blanc de Blancs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Nagrant
You should always cook with good wine, but whoever set that rule probably didn’t expect anyone to deglaze their risotto pan with $400 Champagne like Jean-Baptiste Cristini. Cristini didn’t want me to mention this, probably because you’d think he’s some snooty rich dude. He’s not. He just happens to work for Salon and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Boozehound Strikes Back: Why Drinks Over Dearborn needs to be saved</title>
		<link>http://boozemuse.com/2009/09/01/the-boozehound-strikes-back-why-drinks-over-dearborn-needs-to-be-saved/</link>
		<comments>http://boozemuse.com/2009/09/01/the-boozehound-strikes-back-why-drinks-over-dearborn-needs-to-be-saved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Spirits Just Sound Happy, Don't They?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alpana Singh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cap Rock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Check Please!]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kyle McHugh]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Violet Hour]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Nagrant
“Second floor retail is murder,” says Kyle McHugh, aka “The Boozehound” and owner of boutique wine, beer and spirits retailer Drinks Over Dearborn (DOD). Though McHugh learned this truism in business school, he opened DOD on the second floor of an old office building called The Raleigh on Dearborn between Erie and Ontario [...]]]></description>
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		<title>411: Woke Up This Morning&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://boozemuse.com/2009/08/25/411-woke-up-this-morning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wine is Poetry in a Bottle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Gonsalves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stroller Wholesale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Sopranos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Sopranos Wines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A piece of “The Sopranos” has come to the Midwest with the Chicago-area launch of The Sopranos Wines. Sopranos Wines was originally launched in November 2008 in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut mainly for the large Italian population and wine-drinking market, managing partner Mark Gonsalves says. Over the past few months, after getting their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grapes of Mirth: In search of the ultimate value wine</title>
		<link>http://boozemuse.com/2009/05/22/grapes-of-mirth-in-search-of-the-ultimate-value-wine/</link>
		<comments>http://boozemuse.com/2009/05/22/grapes-of-mirth-in-search-of-the-ultimate-value-wine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 19:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Antonin Truffer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Binny’s Beverage Depot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helmut Hexamer Meddersheimer Rheingrafenberg]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Las Tablas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pierre Sparr]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Nagrant
There may be no better time in our history to hit the bottle. Certainly we are not lacking for motivation, what with all the layoffs, pay reductions, bankruptcies and mortgage adjustments. But, more importantly, even with thinner wallets, because of the over-production of wine, the growth in negociants (folks who often capitalize on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No More Rules: Wine Aficionado Gary Vaynerchuk and his 101 Wines</title>
		<link>http://boozemuse.com/2008/08/06/no-more-rules-wine-aficionado-gary-vaynerchuk-and-his-101-wines/</link>
		<comments>http://boozemuse.com/2008/08/06/no-more-rules-wine-aficionado-gary-vaynerchuk-and-his-101-wines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomnewcity</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Picture a wine critic, and what do you see?  A middle-aged Englishman with glasses wearing a suit and sitting with his legs crossed?  A room full of bearded baby-boomers standing in a circle with their pinkies stuck out, speaking in droll tones?  It probably isn’t Gary Vaynerchuk, the Belarus-born wine aficionado who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Brazil, With Love: Brazilian Wineries finally come of age</title>
		<link>http://boozemuse.com/2008/07/08/from-brazil-with-love-brazilian-wineries-finally-come-of-age/</link>
		<comments>http://boozemuse.com/2008/07/08/from-brazil-with-love-brazilian-wineries-finally-come-of-age/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bin 36]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just Grapes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miolo Pinot Noir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salton Cabernet Sauvignon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Ernest Barteldes
Not too long ago, the words “Brazilian” and “wine” would hardly be put together without a stern warning against a horrible hangover. Such a notion stemmed from the fact that many wines from that country—which has also brought us caipirinhas and rodizio churrascarias—were mostly inexpensively priced, mass-produced table wines that could only be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking on Theise: The wine connoisseur holds a tasting</title>
		<link>http://boozemuse.com/2008/01/24/taking-on-theise-the-wine-connoisseur-holds-a-tasting/</link>
		<comments>http://boozemuse.com/2008/01/24/taking-on-theise-the-wine-connoisseur-holds-a-tasting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[160 Blue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Binny’s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drew Goss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gruner Veltliner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Selbach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[K & L]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kermit Lynch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nigl]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Nagrant
Terry Theise is a man of a thousand faces. Well, at last five or six. In the introduction to his 2007 German wine catalog, the legendary importer’s Fu Manchu-ed visage and hands are engaged in a range of poses including rapture, self-strangulation, a Humbert Humbert-style leer, mock-contemplation and a potential gang sign (Austrian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grace in Bubbles: A seasonal guide to sparkling wine</title>
		<link>http://boozemuse.com/2007/11/29/grace-in-bubbles-a-seasonal-guide-to-sparkling-wine/</link>
		<comments>http://boozemuse.com/2007/11/29/grace-in-bubbles-a-seasonal-guide-to-sparkling-wine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bollinger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Westby]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[René Collard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roederer Estate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Nagrant
While most men of my generation rocked Kurt Cobain and “Pulp Fiction” posters in their college dorm rooms, I had a vintage poster of a Grace Kelly Taittinger champagne ad mounted above my bed at the University of Michigan. At that time, my cinematic interests were mostly of the “Bill and Ted’s Excellent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mediterranean Way: Sicilian wine in Chicago</title>
		<link>http://boozemuse.com/2007/09/13/the-mediterranean-way-sicilian-wine-in-chicago/</link>
		<comments>http://boozemuse.com/2007/09/13/the-mediterranean-way-sicilian-wine-in-chicago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Belinda Chang]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lucio Matricardi wants you to know that there’s more to Sicily than Mafiosi, mountains and red-sauced pastas. “Everyone knows Sicily, but no one knows about Sicilian wine,” says Matricardi, winemaker for Feudo Arancio, in the Sicilian province of Agrigento.
Despite a centuries-old winemaking tradition and an impressive amount of land under vine, much of the island’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indie Wine: The Waco Brothers’ Dean Schlabowske talks his tastes</title>
		<link>http://boozemuse.com/2007/08/23/indie-wine-the-waco-brothers%e2%80%99-dean-schlabowske-talks-his-tastes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Dean Schlabowske isn’t rockin’ a honky tonk with the Waco Brothers or belting out a line from “Scrap Truck,” a track off the new CD from his other band, Dollar Store, the guitar-playing singer-songwriter can be found at the front counter of a wine store—his wine store.
Located in a downstairs space in a little [...]]]></description>
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