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	<title>TALES OF THE VINE</title>
	<link>http://envision-phuket.com/blog</link>
	<description>My secret life of wine in Thailand, by Steven Roberto</description>
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		<title>Five wine resolutions for the new year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. I will drink less but better wine
If there is anything good that has come out of the present economic mess in the world it is the reminder that sometimes less is more. In the case of wine, this means drinking less but better. And why not? Wine is all about pleasure and happiness at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://envision-phuket.com/blog/2008/12/18/wine-resolutions-year/</link>
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		<title>Holiday wine survival guide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here we are again; it seems like only a few months have elapsed since last New Year but another year has slipped away. I remember as a young boy how one day seemed like an eternity. Now, the day flies by before I can finish breakfast.
Time is the most precious thing and is in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://envision-phuket.com/blog/2008/12/15/holiday-wine-survival-guide/</link>
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		<title>The body language of wine</title>
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Experts define body language as any non-verbal communication and they claim body language accounts for over 80% of all communication. I first stumbled across body language when a young lady once accepted a bite of food from my fork across the table at dinner in a restaurant. Actually, it was later that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://envision-phuket.com/blog/2008/10/30/body-language-wine/</link>
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		<title>Real readers, real questions, real wines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q:? I have old red wine stains on the inside of my decanter but nothing I do gets rid of them. Any suggestions?
A:? Try soaking the decanter in vinegar for half an hour then brushing with a soft bottle brush. If the stain is not too old this may get rid of the pigment. If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://envision-phuket.com/blog/2008/10/13/real-readers-questions-wines/</link>
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		<title>What wine goes with this food?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being human it seems to be our nature to make things unnecessarily complicated, falling into the trap of splitting hairs over what wine will work with what food. Instead of rules to obey I prefer to follow my intuition, supported by some simple and logic anyone can understand, remember and relate to when pairing wine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://envision-phuket.com/blog/2008/09/29/wine-food/</link>
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		<title>The future of Australia wine</title>
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I would be rich if I had a twenty baht bill for each person who asked me when the price of Australian wine in Thailand will come down now that the TAFTA free trade agreement has come into effect. Unfortunately, the reality for Australian wine, like all imported wine here, is that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://envision-phuket.com/blog/2008/09/18/future-australia-wine/</link>
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		<title>Special of the day - mans&#8217; best friend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You cannot taste if you cannot smell; the two are linked together and its one reason why our appetite is so dull when we suffer from a bad cold and cannot taste. Smell is also a very powerful memory trigger. I once drove through the smoke of a sugar cane farmer&#8217;s fire and the smoky [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://envision-phuket.com/blog/2008/08/19/mans-best-friend/</link>
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		<title>There is no banana to see</title>
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It has been said that one does not drink wine so much as experience it but not everyone experiences wine and fewer still really taste wine because taste resides within the mind of the taster not in the wine. Taste really is just a name we give to our memories and wine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://envision-phuket.com/blog/2008/08/12/no-banana/</link>
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		<title>Yes, you have to pay for it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just back from Patong. Is this place ever going to join the rest of the world in the trend towards drinking less but better? From wealthy Thai to refuge European, it appears that the majority of people drawn to the hospitality business in Patong are hostile to hospitality. The cheapest, nastiest wines you can imagine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://envision-phuket.com/blog/2008/08/04/pay/</link>
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		<title>You will not be headache</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not a day goes by I don&#8217;t get at least one solicitation for a wine or spirits producer to sell their products in Thailand. Usually, its some atrocious wine from a far away place like Moldova that no one in their right mind would drink and these e-mails normally are filled with the most unbelievable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://envision-phuket.com/blog/2008/08/03/headache/</link>
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