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		<title>Videospeak: Kanonkop 2009 Pinotage</title>
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		<link>http://www.winegoggle.co.za/index.php/2012/02/20/videospeak-kanonkop-2009-pinotage/</link>
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		<title>New Dawn for Wine Distribution in Black Market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[    &#160; There’s a new sheriff in town, one riding into the range of wine distribution in the South African black market. Just, this sheriff is a posse. One who is going to rattle the cages. Make inroads where the bigger producers have failed dismally to make wine appealing to the critical mass without [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winegoggle.co.za/index.php/2012/02/19/new-dawn-for-wine-distribution-in-black-market/</link>
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		<title>Vrede en Lust Takes Marketing Limelight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The situation of wine marketing is – in South Africa, at least – akin to the kind of free-for-all found in rugby rucks officiated by a blind referee. At the one end there is a diverse media spectrum united in the ridiculous belief that wineries and their brands are sitting on piles of cash [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winegoggle.co.za/index.php/2012/02/11/vrede-en-lust-takes-marketing-limelight/</link>
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		<title>Whites Out-doing Reds in the Summer of Thirst</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been some serious drinking going on in my neck of the woods recently. A hot summer, various work-related challenges and taxing gym sessions have left me with the kind of thirst a camel would run away from. Sure, the usual suspects are being employed to slake this thirst – kegs of frosty draft [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winegoggle.co.za/index.php/2012/02/07/whites-out-doing-reds-in-the-summer-of-thirst/</link>
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		<title>Onions and Wine Critics Don&#8217;t Gel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; When I began my former career as a movie reviewer, I asked a colleague how one goes about this. “Just sit back, enjoy, and write about it as you were describing the movie to your girlfriend or her mother,” came the answer from across the cluttered editorial offices of Die Burger newspaper. Simple does [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winegoggle.co.za/index.php/2012/02/05/onions-and-wine-critics-dont-gel/</link>
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		<title>The Truth Lies in Vermouth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Your drinking what?” I looked up and showed her the flat-green bottle. “Vermouth. Noilly Prat,” I answered. “Why, do you prefer Cinzano?” She stared at me as if black widow spiders were crawling from my nose and I was carrying a copy of Huisgenoot magazine. “Siss. Only schoolgirls drink that common stuff.” After politely telling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winegoggle.co.za/index.php/2012/02/03/the-truth-lies-in-vermouth/</link>
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		<title>Videospeak: De Wetshof Bateleur 2009</title>
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		<title>SA Wine Industry Gathers for Sage Advice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Those implying that South Africa’s wine producers are reluctant to stand together should have been at the Vinpro Annual Information Day held at the Lord Charles in Somerset-West on 19 January. It was standing room only as over 500 wine farmers, wine makers, viticulturalists and other folk involved in the local industry packed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winegoggle.co.za/index.php/2012/01/20/sa-wine-industry-gathers-for-sage-advice/</link>
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		<title>Get the 15% Mongrel Out of SA Wine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many wineries have begun putting their 2011 red blends together. After a day or two’s mixing, matching, scratching of heads, agreeing, disagreeing, the winemaker will make a call as to how many percentages of each varietal component will make-up that particular vintage’s Red, Bordeaux, Rhône, Cape or whatever blend. Sitting in on these blending sessions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winegoggle.co.za/index.php/2012/01/08/get-the-15-mongrel-out-of-sa-wine/</link>
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		<title>Making the News in 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let’s delve into 2012. What are the predictions for this year’s vinous calendar? Here are four. Readers are invited to add a fifth. The best entry will receive a bottle from WineGoggle&#8217;s private cellar. 1. After years of feverish attempts to work in secrecy, Stellenbosch University announces the discovery of a new grape variety. Chénoday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winegoggle.co.za/index.php/2012/01/03/making-the-news-in-2012/</link>
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