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	<title>Richard Leahy's Wine Report</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Terroir in Ontario’s Niagara Peninsula? Top Riesling, Pinot, and Chardonnay Prove it.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canadian winemakers are in hot pursuit of terroir in a cool climate. The Niagara Peninsula is poised to displace Long Island as having the most elegant wineries and upscale tasting rooms in the East, but the wines show that the industry is not just a group of millionaires throwing money at vines and barrels.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bartholomew Broadbent &#8220;totally amazed and pleasantly surprised&#8221; by Virginia Wines</title>
		<link>http://www.richardleahy.com/blog/2008/07/20/bartholomew-broadbent-totally-amazed-and-pleasantly-surprised-by-virginia-wines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Virginia Wine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, July 18th, Bartholomew Broadbent, son of senior British wine writer Michael Broadbent MW and a wine importer now based in Richmond, tasted a selection of 20 Virginia wines I provided for him as an example of the best of the Virginia wine scene. This was an eclectic range of whites, reds and dessert [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Dave McIntyre Nuts (per his review of Pollack Vineyards)?</title>
		<link>http://www.richardleahy.com/blog/2008/06/08/is-dave-mcintyre-nuts-per-his-review-of-pollack-vineyards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 12, Dave McIntyre, a William &#38; Mary classmate and fellow wine writer covering the Virgnia wine scene, posted a blog entry (see link from the blogroll) rating newly opened Pollack Vineyards in Greenwood between Crozet and Afton in highly favorable terms. People (I won&#8217;t say who) have since asked me in several ways [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jefferson Vineyards Wins 2 Double Golds in Int. Eastern Wine Competition (IEWC)</title>
		<link>http://www.richardleahy.com/blog/2008/06/07/jefferson-vineyards-wins-2-double-golds-in-int-eastern-wine-competition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>VAWINEMAN</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Virginia Wine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two Virginia wineries won double gold and gold medals in the recently concluded International Eastern Wine Competition (May 28 in Watkins Glen, NY). Jefferson Vineyards won double gold medals for its 2007 viognier and 2007 pinot gris, while Rappahannock Vineyards won a gold medal for its 2006 chardonnay blended with viognier. The outstanding performance by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia Vintner&#8217;s Table At VT Brings Praise from Doug Frost, Dan Berger</title>
		<link>http://www.richardleahy.com/blog/2008/04/07/29/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Virginia Wine]]></category>

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Virginia Tech hosted “Virginia Vintner’s Table at Virginia  Tech: Presenting our Best Harvests” on May 23-25, 2008 on the campus in Blacksburg, Virginia.The purpose of the event was to showcase world class wines being produced in Virginia.
I collaborated on the planning of the program, and we were pleased to have American wine writers Doug [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Range of Rieslings&#8221; at 2nd Annual Northern Michigan Wine Summit 4/28/08: the first parallel in the New World to rieslings of the Saar/Ruwer</title>
		<link>http://www.richardleahy.com/blog/2008/04/06/april-28-2nd-annual-northern-michigan-wine-summit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
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The 2nd Annual Northern Michigan Wine Summit which took place in Traverse City on Monday, April 28 at the Park Place Hotel featured some 150 industry VIPs – including restaurant &#38; wine shop owners, educators, area wine distributors, tourism partners and the media –who learned from a panel of experets the benefits of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;License to Steal&#8221; Workshop in Ohio Offered Inspiration, Collaboration</title>
		<link>http://www.richardleahy.com/blog/2008/04/03/license-to-steal-workshop-in-ohio-offered-inspiration-collaboration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time I had the pleasure of attending the third annual &#8220;License to Steal&#8221; conference organized by Donniella Winchell, Executive Director of the Ohio Wine Producers Association. The three-day event, held at the scenic Lodge at Geneva on Lake Erie, in northeast Ohio&#8217;s wine country, focused on marketing issues, and attracted a wide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wineries Unlimited &#8216;08 Wrap</title>
		<link>http://www.richardleahy.com/blog/2008/03/30/wineries-unlimited-08-wrap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 32nd Wineries Unlimited concluded on March 7th 2008 with new record numbers for attendance (over 2,200) and funds raised for ASEV/ES scholarship fund (almost $18,000). For the second year Wineries Unlimited was held at the Valley Forge Convention Center in King of Prussia, PA (juse west of Philadelphia).
The 2009 Wineries Unlimited will take place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking News: New Grape Revolutionizes Red Wine Potential in Cold Climates</title>
		<link>http://www.richardleahy.com/blog/2008/02/21/breaking-news-new-grape-revolutionizes-red-wine-potential-in-cold-climates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.richardleahy.com/blog/2008/02/21/breaking-news-new-grape-revolutionizes-red-wine-potential-in-cold-climates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exciting New Grapes at the Cold Climate Viticulture Conference
You heard it here first: growers as far north as Minnesota or Maine can finally achieve the Holy Grail of Cold Climate viticulture; growing a high-quality, cold-hard red variety that ripens fully in a short season and is disease-resistant. And the wine it yields is not only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia Wine:  Nearly Four Centuries and Counting</title>
		<link>http://www.richardleahy.com/blog/2008/02/19/virginiawine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The inaugural edition of this new wine blog focusing on Virginia and wines of the East will reflect on nearly four centuries in the struggle to achieve a sustainable commercial wine industry in Virginia, focusing on the "Fourth Wave" of industry evolution since 2000.]]></description>
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