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		<title>The wines that followed me home. I&#8217;m going to keep them.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While taking time to walk part of the Napa to Sonoma half marathon,  the Negress amassed wine for shipping back to the boiling East. She ate at Cyrus (much more about that later) and went to some places she doesn&#8217;t usually go and discovered one-stop shopping for some less prominent but delicious vintners. She mentioned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicnegress.net&blog=3592053&post=609&subd=chronicnegress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taylor&#8217;s/Gott&#8217;s, Rick Bakas and some more wine of Sonoma</title>
		<link>http://chronicnegress.net/2010/07/15/taylorsgotts-rick-bakas-and-some-more-wine-of-sonoma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past three days, the Negress has scarfed down handmade ice cream at Screaming Mimi&#8216;s in Sebastopol, renewed her love for the sweet potato fries at what was once Taylor&#8217;s Refresher but is now Gott&#8217;s, meet wine social media guru Rick Bakas and bought a bunch of Petit Sirah to take back East since [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicnegress.net&blog=3592053&post=598&subd=chronicnegress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tasting through the Dooniverse: Contra, Syrah, and Cigare Volante</title>
		<link>http://chronicnegress.net/2010/07/14/tasting-through-the-dooniverse-contra-syrah-and-cigare-volante/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who is at all familiar with Bonny Doon wines knows that Randall Grahm made his bones with red Rhones. There is probably a place in  biodynamism for bones but the Negress will admit she didn&#8217;t ask brand manager Barbara Smith when she tasted at the Santa Cruz tasting room. The 2009 Contra features a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicnegress.net&blog=3592053&post=595&subd=chronicnegress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tasting through the Dooniverse: Bonny Doon&#8217;s delicious downsizing</title>
		<link>http://chronicnegress.net/2010/07/13/tasting-through-the-dooniverse-bonny-doons-delicious-downsizing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before going to Boony Doon&#8217;s cozy tasting room in Santa Cruz, the Negress went to Aldo&#8217;s, a waterfront seafood temple in town. I had been advised by a second-generation California that the Pacific snapper was first-rate as was the clam chowder. The meal was a 50-50 split. The snapper was delicious, lightly spiced and augmented [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicnegress.net&blog=3592053&post=592&subd=chronicnegress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anchor and Hope: The eating begins</title>
		<link>http://chronicnegress.net/2010/07/13/anchor-and-hope-the-eating-begins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Negress perused the menu at Anchor and Hope with an eye to her future. This wasn&#8217;t her first time at the place, but it was the first time she had dined alone. Previous dinners featured lively conversation with friends and some oohing and aaahing over the food. Tonight she could concentrate on flavors and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicnegress.net&blog=3592053&post=586&subd=chronicnegress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anchor and Hope: the atmosphere for food and wine</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Negress had dinner at Anchor and Hope in San Francisco recently and there is much to tell. First of all, it is to be hoped that her blog posts will not rival the saga of Gilgamesh in length so she&#8217;s addressing this meal and the wines in two parts. You have to have a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicnegress.net&blog=3592053&post=581&subd=chronicnegress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A&#8217;s baseball, Red Hook ESB, Fat Tire Amber and cinnamon bun overload</title>
		<link>http://chronicnegress.net/2010/07/11/as-baseball-red-hook-esb-fat-tire-amber-and-cinnamon-bun-overload/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some philosopher said every journey begins with a single step. For the Negress, every journey must include more than one cinnamon bun. As a child while prowling some park in Alberta with the family, I ate five cinnamon buns with raisins and nearly puked my way through various awesome natural wonders of Canada and Montana. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicnegress.net&blog=3592053&post=574&subd=chronicnegress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alice Feiring and Robert Parker: Can we be saved from both?</title>
		<link>http://chronicnegress.net/2010/07/09/alice-feiring-and-robert-parker-can-we-be-saved-from-both/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Negress has been busy clearing her heart and her calendar.  She&#8217;s off to northern California for ball games, good food, good friends and some wine. Heck, probably as much wine as she can consume without injury or driving issues. She had been laying off the grape while sorting out some diagnostics that ended happily. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicnegress.net&blog=3592053&post=564&subd=chronicnegress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Birthday Father&#8217;s Day the World Cup some old wine and a newly wounded heart</title>
		<link>http://chronicnegress.net/2010/06/27/birthday-fathers-day-the-world-cup-some-old-wine-and-a-newly-wounded-heart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s evidence that the Negress knitted in public on her birthday, which went well with some World Cup matches (one of Italy&#8217;s flameouts) and a lovely dinner treat from my pal Kathy. I got carded when I ordered the Casa Lapostolle Cuvee Merlot, which isn&#8217;t bad since I passed the a half century mark a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicnegress.net&blog=3592053&post=552&subd=chronicnegress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A trip to Suburban Hospital and the rest of the 2006 Vina Zaco</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Negress can safely say her recent trip to the Suburban Hospital emergency room had nothing to do with the 2006 Vina Zaco Rioja  she opened to accompany a homemade pizza with pesto, mozzarella, Gruyère, sopressata and manchego. It had everything to do with her unintentional quest to become a finalist for the Darwin awards. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicnegress.net&blog=3592053&post=549&subd=chronicnegress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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