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			<title><![CDATA[Jefford on Monday: A Fashion for Stones]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[It was a grey, rainy start to a winter's day in Chablis: darkness was sliding from the long, sinewy shoulder of hillside outside Didier Defaix's tasting room in Milly.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jefford on Monday: Dionysus and Downing St]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[January draws to a close. For a few of my friends, that means the end of an abstemious, alcohol-free month.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jefford on Monday: Bot Canker and Black Goo]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[There were 923 ha of vineyards planted in England back in 2006. By 2010, the figure had reached 1,324 ha; itâs probably around 1,500 ha now.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jefford on Monday: The Nocturnal Ballet]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Across the southern hemisphereâs winelands, harvesting machines are being fine-tuned in readiness for the three months of frenzied activity which redeems their nine months of idleness.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jefford on Monday: Look to the Table]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Wine quality is complex. Like most things in life, the creation of fine wine has elements which are easy to quantify, and others which are intangible. One of these intangibles has been nagging at me for a year or two; it became impossible to ignore as I was sitting in a busy Buenos Aires restaurant a few months ago. More of that in a moment.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jefford on Monday: The Winegrower's Perspective]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Tasting great wines is a privilege. They gather light and warmth into the mouth, as well as offering a sensorial synopsis of distant places on earth; they mean time spent with beauty.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jefford on Monday: Scored Rigid]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The mother of one of our village friends stopped me at the market a couple of Sundays ago. She and her partner have a wine domain in Fitou, about three hours from here â" one of the few privately run domains, in fact, in what is an intensely cooperative-dominated area.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jefford on Monday: Fire and the Vine]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The bushfire which took place just under a month ago close to Prevelly, in the Wallcliffe sector of Margaret River, is a reminder that Christmas usually means the start of the 'bushfire season' in Australia. Only 5 ha of vines were actually singed in this case, but smoke taint is, as usual, as significant a threat. The chemical markers for this are guaiacol and 4-mythylguaiacol.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jefford on Monday: Fear Stalks the Hills]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Whatâs going on in the Douro? While wine drinkers across the wintry north smile at the prospect of a decanter brimming with vintage or crusted port to illuminate Christmas, those who grew the grapes are fearful and anxious â" and not simply because of the travails of the euro and the battered Portuguese economy.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jay Miller's resignation: The background]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Last week Robert Parker threatened legal action over the steady drip of allegations from bloggers, as well as some of Spainâs most senior wine critics, that Jay Millerâs representatives in Spain were effectively charging wineries, via their consejos reguladores â" for tastings.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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