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		<title>Wine Tasters Unite!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can hardly believe it is September and Labor Day Weekend.  First, the details for this weekend.  We want all you wine tasters to unite and demand a barrel taste of our 2009 Pinot Noir.  We think it is already as fruity as our award-winning 2008 Pinot!  We&#8217;ll be serving all of our wines, of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time Flies When You&#8217;re Having Fun&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so it&#8217;s been a busy month &#8230;. After the early spring that brought growth to the vineyard about three weeks early, June was cold and wet.  People&#8217;s moods were sulky.  The grapes were under the wrong kind of stress.  Then the sun came out right after July 4th (we watched fireworks at a friend&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Independent &#8211; Celebrate at A Blooming Hill Vineyard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are in a definite celebratory mood around here &#8212; it&#8217;s been sunny and the vines and grapes are growing and we are happy.  Plus, the medals for our award winning wines arrived this week so we are excited to show them off! July 4th Weekend &#8211; Saturday, Sunday and Monday  noon &#8211; 5 PM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New White Wines Available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Blooming Hill Vineyard &#38; Winery 5195 SW Hergert Rd., Cornelius OR         503-992-1196 It&#8217;s Memorial Day in Oregon Wine Country and all of our new 2009 Whites are available.  They are wonderful.  Come and see us &#8211; directions on the bar at the left &#8211; we&#8217;ll be serving all of our wines, our wedding chocolate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drunken Sparrow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have been following the story of Wilbur, our pigeon - here or on Facebook - you saw a reference to a bird I once got drunk on brandy.  A few people wanted the back story so here it is. A thousand years ago when I was living in Snedens Landing on the Hudnson River and Charlie was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JIM&#8217;S WINE RECOGNIZED AS OUTSTANDING</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the 2010 Oregon Wine Awards competition for his 2008 Pinot Noir.  The results were announced today.  I knew the results would go online today, May 1, and I could hardly wait to get to my Blackberry this morning &#8230; this is Jim&#8217;s first professionally produced wine for the commercial market and the first wine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Cork Or Not To Cork-No Question&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are getting ready to bottle &#8211; always an adventure, believe me!  This year, we thought we should investigate screw caps vs. corks so, at the annual wine seminar in Oregon, I went to the session on Closures.  It turned out to be fascinating.  I heard about a lot of things I would never have thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wine Weekend, Wine Dogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have the best dogs &#8211; everybody said so this weekend!  Really, the focus of the weekend extravaganza here in our corner of wine paradise was for people to be able to visit the wineries in North Willamette Valley that are closer to Portland and Beaverton and not (yet) as well visited as those in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wilbur Saga</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What to do about Wilbur.  This is on my mind every time I lift my head from my computer and look out of the window into Wilbur&#8217;s aviary and beyond.  The dilemma is that Wilbur can fly perfectly, now, and we feel like we should let him go.  He sits on the little perch Jim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYTimes Story About My Hometown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people are surprised when I mention New York City as my hometown, but it is very much like a small town if you think about its different neighborhoods.  There is a story in today&#8217;s NYTimes about wine stores in several of New York&#8217;s little neighborhoods from  Brooklyn to Long Island City to a bunch [...]]]></description>
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