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		<title>Case Project: Conclusion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The original question was &#8220;Is a value still a value if you don&#8217;t want to drink it in the first place?&#8221;. And the original premise was to get a case of cheaper wine that doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with larger-name macro wine empires and see if it&#8217;s worth it. So what did we have? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carpevinumpdx.com/?p=214</link>
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		<title>Case Project: The Rest!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, let’s get this out of the way. I don’t think it’s going to be all that interesting to continue single-posting a whole case of wine. I’ve got more interesting things to write about. So let’s kick it into high gear and mass-review the next 9, and get to the juicy conclusion.
Wine #4: Feudo Arancio [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carpevinumpdx.com/?p=124</link>
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		<title>Case Project Wine #3: Foppiano Lot 96</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my reasons to research these inexpensive wines in the face of economic adversity is my lifelong cynicism about the retail industry in general and the commercial view of “value”. For example, long ago when I was about 10, I remember leafing through a Sears catalog, looking for things to circle so my folks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carpevinumpdx.com/?p=113</link>
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		<title>Diversion: Edgefield 2006 Black Rabbit Red</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, yeah. It&#8217;s been over a week since the last post. I apologize for that. I also apologize for diverting from the previous topic, not that everyone was waiting with patient enthusiasm and bated breath as to which cheap wine I&#8217;ll review next. That&#8217;s all part of a larger project, and I&#8217;ll get back to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carpevinumpdx.com/?p=87</link>
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		<title>Case Project Wine #2: Daniel Belda Ponsalet Monastrell Jove</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, Spain! I started my love affair with Spain quite some time ago. Nowhere in the world will you find more new and exciting wines at such good values. Well, okay . . . there are lots of places, but this is one them. For the wine explorer like me, the thing about Spain, at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carpevinumpdx.com/?p=72</link>
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		<title>Case Project Wine #1: Domaine Paul Autard 2006 Cotes du Rhone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m a huge fan of the French Rhone wines, which is a problem these days. First off, the good stuff has gotten terribly expensive. Things like Chateauneuf du Pape and Gigondas, and even Vacqueyras now . . . and I’m not even going to mention the Northern Rhone. After a few flashy reviews by the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carpevinumpdx.com/?p=35</link>
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		<title>One more thing . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I know it’s been a week, and I’m well underway in the Case Project, here. I’ve sampled quite a few and have been pondering the proper way to display the selections. I don’t always take the best notes possible which makes me a bad, bad wine guy. What good is a photographic memory if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carpevinumpdx.com/?p=31</link>
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		<title>Recession Progression v2.0!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So here we are on the “Value” wine project. How do we select these so-called “value” wines? There are a few parameters we need to set up for this. We have to decide a price limit, an idea of the selection, and where to choose them from.
In the concept for this project, the magical price [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carpevinumpdx.com/?p=23</link>
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		<title>Welcome to the Recession!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the recession! Everyone is talking about it. Most of us are feeling the pinch of it. Everyone is busy pointing fingers as to who caused it, who is going to solve it, who is making it worse, and who is capitalizing on it. And I, for one, am really tired of all of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carpevinumpdx.com/?p=18</link>
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		<title>Hey! Whaddyaknow?! A post! A movie Post!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just through the grapevine I&#8217;ve just heard of a new movie. It&#8217;s a wine related movie! Hurrah! It&#8217;s called Bottle Shock and is playing in a theater near you!

Oh, wait. It isn&#8217;t playing anywhere? It was released when?! August?!? And I&#8217;m just now hearing about it? Sigh. Well, I guess I&#8217;m not part of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carpevinumpdx.com/?p=6</link>
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