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		<title>From Grape To Wine &#8211; How Wine Is Made</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wine is fermented grape juice. All wine begins in the vineyard, with the grapes. The grapes are picked at the point where they are ripe enough to have the right amount of sugar, balanced with the right degree of acidity (pH) and flavors. At the core of wine making, be it professionally or at home, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Right Approach To Tasting Wine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone can taste wine. Don’t be intimidated by remarks and descriptions from the cognoscenti. Any respected Wine 101 education guide would tell you that associations of taste and smell are personal, so everyone is always right! In tasting a wine, first of all notice the intensity of the color, hue and clarity. The differences in color [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Serve Wine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A good Wine 101 education resource would tell you that to allow a wine to be fully appreciated, there are a few basic conditions which should be observed. The first of these is the choice of glass. A good wine glass is sufficiently large and tapers slightly towards the top, in order to hold as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wine Bottles And Decanters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Within the European Union there are requirements as to the standard sizes for bottles. These standards have been adopted by the rest of the wine world. A normal wine bottle holds 0.75 liter, and a half bottle 0.375. A magnum bottle, prized by connoisseurs because the wine ages better, is 1.5 litre. The convenient amounts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Buy Wine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Buying wine is an adventure! Like any other adventure, it is a good idea to consult a professional before you embark. After all, as any Wine 101 education resource would tell you, there is an extraordinarily wide variety of wine available these days. The most important guiding principle is of course personal taste, but this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wine Storage Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Through the millennia, drinkers and makers of wine have struggled with its delicate nature to figure out how best to store wine. In ancient times it was already known that contact with air quickly spoiled wine. Honey, spices, resin and other sorts of seasonings were added to disguise this effect. An important step came when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organic and Biodynamic Wines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This video talks to the people behind The Appellation Wine Store, Benziger Family Winery, and Organic Wine Journal, and discusses the trends behind biodynamic, organic, and sustainable wines. Scott Pactor, owner of Appellation Wine Store in New York City, discusses how these wines are becoming popular in his wine store where he has taken care [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wine-beginner.com/organic-biodynamic-wines/</link>
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		<title>Wine Tasting For The Young Generation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An un-intimidating Wine 101 introduction to wine tasting for the 21 to 30 crowd, done through a tour of a number of Californian wine makers and tasting rooms near the San Franciso Bay Area.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wine-beginner.com/wine-tasting-video/</link>
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		<title>The 5 Minute Wine Tour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this five-minute Wine 101 wine tour video you will receive an introduction to: A short visual history of European wines, from ancient times to medieval times. The impact of food and wine from colonial times to the 20th century- from new foods in Europe to new avant-garde wineries. Luxury food and wine orientated tours, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wine-beginner.com/wine-tour/</link>
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		<title>Wine And Health &#8211; Is Wine Good For You?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1991 the French researcher Serge Renaud spoke of the ‘French Paradox’: the French, particularly those living in the south-west, ate many times more fat than Americans, including large amounts of saturated duck and goose fat, and yet had one-third the risk of dying of heart or vascular diseases. The reason was said to be [...]]]></description>
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