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	<description>Great Wines! Great People! Great Experiences!</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 06:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Bud Break</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 19:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the question I get asked more often then anything is how are the grapes doing?  Are we behind? Early? Worried? Happy?
So here is the official answer&#8230;
Cautiously optimistic
Yup, really
So far April&#8217;s weather is right around the long-term average.  Bud break occured about May 5th - about a week or 10 days later then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jose&#8217;s Tempranillo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[


The final stage of the journey of this grape

The last of Jose&#8217;s Tempranillo is just about done and what a great wine it was.  It also has a good story because it started with a grape and a vision to be true to the region.  See our latest news about the press release.  Now for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter pruning complete</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past couple of days we finished the last of the winter pruning.  All of our vines are pruned and tied down ready for bud burst. 
we finished with the traditional burning of the vines

now we can focus on finishing the last of our bottling and get our gardens cleaned up
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		<title>Our tasting room is open, after a makeover</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We spent March fixing up our tasting room.   A fresh coat of paint, some new shelving, overall a new cleaner look.
We&#8217;re also busy finishing the winter pruning and getting ready to release our 2011 whites.
I&#8217;m really pleased with how our new releases are turning out so it should be a grear year.
We also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Winter Pruning</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We finished winter pruning our estate vineyard in Cowichan Bay.  Just have our 2 ac leased vineyard next door to complete over the next week or so.
On another front, we&#8217;ve finished renovating Linda&#8217;s office, and now we are refreshing the tasting room which will be closed until the 1rst of April. 
Just finalized the label designs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winner of our Gift Basket Draw at Parksville Uncorked..</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We went to Parksville Uncorked and it&#8217;s so busy there that we tried a social media experiment and draw.&#160; We decided that those that entered on that weekend are eligible for a gift basket from us.&#160; Now we had to figure out the best way to do this and just did it by cutting up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visitors to the Vineyard</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was an interesting day.
In a few hrs of the morning we had a couple of different visitors at our vineyard.  The first looked like it was some sort of hawk or woodpecker, with some bright orange plumage - quite unusual and the first time I had seen it.  Tried to get a picture on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valentines Dinner</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So tonight we had an early Valentines dinner at one of our favourite restaurants, the Mahle house.
Thanks to my parents (they gave us a gift certificate); it was a great meal and a wonderful evening.
We started with a great romaine salad with blue cheese, pecans and beets, and lamb carpacchio.
Our mains - Linda had the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Pruning</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We got our winter pruning started this weekend, finished the first 9 rows of our cab-foch.  Thanks to Robin and Katherine for the help.  It&#8217;s a little slower then our other vineyards, but it incorporates both the cutting and tieing down the vines so we are eliminating the second step.
We will be trying spur pruning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter?  Really?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, after a brief bit of snow it&#8217;s back to warm and sunny here in the Cowichan Valley.  Perfect weather for winter pruning which we will be starting this weekend.
Also getting our wines ready to bottle in March, so it will be a busy month.
Hope to blog a lot more this year, would be great [...]]]></description>
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