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		<title>Clos Henri (and a little bit of Castillon in Marlborough!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 10:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clos Henri is the brainchild of legendary Sancerre producer Henri Bourgeois. He and his family searched the globe for the ‘perfect’ spot for his beloved Sauvignon Blanc variety, finally finding it in the year 2000 here in Marlborough! They quickly &#8230; <a href="http://ec2-54-247-180-8.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com/wordpress/?p=1590">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting Cloudy Bay and Hunter&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 14:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I drank the wine in front of those infamous hills a couple of weeks ago and now it was time to go and visit the winery. Through my winemaking friends in Marlborough I managed to get a behind-the-scenes tour with &#8230; <a href="http://ec2-54-247-180-8.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com/wordpress/?p=1583">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Vive la Reine, Windsor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 13:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Laithwaite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight we saw &#8216;our&#8217; wine being poured for The Queen and her house-guests at dinner in Windsor. Not the wine from the grapes we grow on a hill in the Royal Farm here because they&#8217;ve not actually been harvested yet &#8230; <a href="http://ec2-54-247-180-8.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com/wordpress/?p=1572">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Marlborough Sauvignon Secret</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 16:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laithwaites</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With harvest over I flew on the red eye Air NZ flight out of Blenheim south to Christchurch. It was sunrise when I boarded the tiny 12-seat plane and with the Autumn leaves changing colour, I got the perfect picture &#8230; <a href="http://ec2-54-247-180-8.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com/wordpress/?p=1569">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>More Marlborough</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 15:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laithwaites</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plenty of wineries to visit in Marlborough, so I continued with my tour starting from Wairau River Wines, as recommended for a good simple lunch. And I wasn’t disappointed.  The old single-storey, mud brick, colonial-style building houses the cellar door &#8230; <a href="http://ec2-54-247-180-8.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com/wordpress/?p=1562">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Laithwaite&#8217;s Wine in the Big Apple</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 12:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Laithwaite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[80, Fifth Avenue, Penthouse: the setting for our first &#8216;Spring Festival&#8217;; three Customer Tastings in New York. 600 turned up. Enthusiastic? The word doesn&#8217;t do justice to the atmosphere in that great room. 40 of our US office slaved to &#8230; <a href="http://ec2-54-247-180-8.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com/wordpress/?p=1546">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Marlborough Wineries</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 10:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laithwaites</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We finally picked the last of the Pinot Noir during the night so a day off was well earned (well I believed so!)  I decided to explore the region where I have been living for the last five weeks and &#8230; <a href="http://ec2-54-247-180-8.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com/wordpress/?p=1535">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Awatere Valley</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 09:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laithwaites</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The growth in popularity of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc over the last ten years has meant that the Wairau Valley – home to the household names such as Brancott Estate, Wither Hills, Villa Maria and Cloudy Bay – has quite simply &#8230; <a href="http://ec2-54-247-180-8.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com/wordpress/?p=1523">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cloudy Bay</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laithwaites</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows it and it has been the icon wine of NZ, that label!  Everybody wanted it and I think maybe still does but it is expensive. Is it still good value? I have woken up to scenery of that &#8230; <a href="http://ec2-54-247-180-8.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com/wordpress/?p=1516">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Farther up – then down – the Douro</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Laithwaite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We saw further evidence of massive investment in new terraced vineyards for wine (not port) in the high Douro valley as it nears the Spanish border. A steep, north-facing slope there is shared by two of Portugal’s most respected winemakers: &#8230; <a href="http://ec2-54-247-180-8.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com/wordpress/?p=1482">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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