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		<title>A Good Time for Sherry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered when and how to serve Sherry? And what different types of Sherries there are? Well, if you want to find out please read on… Old perceptions and new trends There is an old perception that Sherry is a sweet, honey coloured liqueur type drink that “old dears” drink at Christmas. Fortunately [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=excelwines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5961209&amp;post=43&amp;subd=excelwines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met Margereta Zaveri, whom we call Meta fondly, shortly after we moved to Malta through another common friend. We clicked immediately not only because Meta is from Sweden which reminds me of my dear partner, Anna Axen, but she is a big fan of Spanish wine. Meta worked for a major wine retailer in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=excelwines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5961209&amp;post=42&amp;subd=excelwines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Miguel Merino and his fantastic Rioja wines</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My husband and I met Miguel Merino by pure coincidence about 5 years ago. We were taking my parents to Rioja for the first time. Since they love wine (especially the high quality stuff…) we had done some proper research and we were planning to go to Finca Allende in the lovely little village of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=excelwines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5961209&amp;post=51&amp;subd=excelwines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top notch Spanish wines to Sweden!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having your own business can be very hard. There are some ups and downs. But today we are very happy and proud. Today two of our wines have been launched at the Swedish monopoly! The process started ages ago…can’t even remember when but probably about a year ago. Many samples and emails later these great [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=excelwines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5961209&amp;post=50&amp;subd=excelwines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bag in Box wine &#8211; is it really drinkable?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just moved back to my home country Sweden after 13 years abroad, the last five of them in Spain. While doing my wine shopping here (of course only at the state monopoly stores – “Systembolaget”…) I’ve been observing what people are buying. by robotSkirt And it seems that every man and his dog [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=excelwines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5961209&amp;post=49&amp;subd=excelwines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The aftermath of the EWBC</title>
		<link>http://excelwines.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/the-aftermath-of-the-ewbc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As mentioned in a previous posting, I had put my name down to attend the European Wine Bloggers Conference which was held in La Rioja this past weekend. I duly went to the Conference and what a conference it was! No conference I have ever been to before has involved so much eating, drinking and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=excelwines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5961209&amp;post=48&amp;subd=excelwines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All ready to go to Rioja and the first European wine blogger conference!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend it’s all happening. What we have been waiting and waiting for, over the last 6 months. The European wine blogger conference! This is the first of its kind event, read more about the event here. For those of you who would like to be in Rioja but can not, we would like to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=excelwines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5961209&amp;post=47&amp;subd=excelwines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women smell their way to men&#8230;and to fine wine</title>
		<link>http://excelwines.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/women-smell-their-way-to-menand-to-fine-wine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many different studies have proven that women out-perform men when it comes to smell sensitivity. Some say it dates back to the cave women having to smell whose child was whose and some say female sex hormones have a role to play. I believe some women can have better smell sensitivity because we have been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=excelwines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5961209&amp;post=46&amp;subd=excelwines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Football bullfighting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really love living in Spain. There are so many things that are almost like back home (in my case, back home is Sweden), but then again so many things that are not. An example of the latter is Bullfighting Football. I live in Getxo, a nice part of greater Bilbao that looks over a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=excelwines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5961209&amp;post=44&amp;subd=excelwines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buying fish is not that simple. Cooking fish, on the other hand, is</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Vizcaya, Spain, people eat a lot of fish and they all seem to know a lot about fish (at least they all have strict opinions about it) and when I say fish I mean all sorts of fish, they all seem to have a recipe for any fish you mention. In Sweden we also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=excelwines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5961209&amp;post=40&amp;subd=excelwines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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