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		<title>Lifestyle choices and wine 2-25-2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Right now, many in the wine world are freaked about the decline in wine drinking. Advice: relax, take a deep, cleansing breath. A nice, chilled rosé also might help. Wine is a lifestyle choice. By their very nature, lifestyle choices are always in chaotic, often irrational flux. Examples from the wine world: • Merlot was <a class="read-more" href="https://www.gusclemensonwine.com/lifestyle-choices-and-wine-2-25-2026/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wine’s tough year 12-30-2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 04:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ah, it was a heady wine time while it lasted. Wine enjoyed more than 50 years of vineyard and winery growth, more than 50 years of improving quality, more than 50 years of consistent year-over-year market expansion. Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end. We’d sing and dance forever and a <a class="read-more" href="https://www.gusclemensonwine.com/wines-tough-year-12-30-2025/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tannins explained 10-8-2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 06:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tannins are natural and essential to wine. They also are wine’s most misunderstood element. Even wine scientists admit they do not fully understand tannins. One expert called tannins a “chemical train wreck.” Let’s explore. What do we know? Tannins are natural organic and phenolic compounds found in almost all plants. They provide protection as a <a class="read-more" href="https://www.gusclemensonwine.com/tannins-explained-10-8-2025/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Controversial wine review terms 9-16-2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wine writers freely admit that trying to describe how a wine tastes is the classic “like dancing about architecture” folly. But amid the thousands of wine choices, people still want guidance. Even if the guidance has flaws, it still beats the “even a blind squirrel can find a nut sometimes” method. There are three commonly <a class="read-more" href="https://www.gusclemensonwine.com/controversial-wine-review-terms-9-16-2025/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wine writer times they are a-changin’ 9-2-2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After 17 years of communicating to readers as a newspaper wine columnist with a side gig online, the ground shifted, the medium and the stylistic conventions of the message changed. As a newspaper writer, the style leaned toward formality and objectivity, even though a newspaper column is more personal than a formal newspaper story. For <a class="read-more" href="https://www.gusclemensonwine.com/wine-writer-times-they-are-a-changin-9-2-2025/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wine reviews humor 8-13-2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I get it. Using words to describe what a wine tastes like is like dancing about architecture. But wine writers do it anyway, and wine readers read it anyway. Part of the reason: something is better than nothing. And, to be fair, the typical word salad does convey a rough idea of what to expect <a class="read-more" href="https://www.gusclemensonwine.com/wine-reviews-humor-8-13-2025/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Perceived sweetness in wine 8-6-2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What makes a wine sweet and what makes a wine taste sweet? As you might expect in the convoluted world of wine, the two are not the same. In the wine world, things are not always what they seem. Wine sweetness is determined by “residual sugar” or RS. There are other mechanisms both artificial and <a class="read-more" href="https://www.gusclemensonwine.com/perceived-sweetness-in-wine-8-6-2025/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A widow solves a Champagne riddle 7-30-2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 05:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Revolution and evolution in wine in the 17th and 18th centuries set up the sparkling wine world we enjoy today. Christopher Merret’s experiments in secondary fermentation. Dom Pérignon’s vineyard and winemaking improvements. English breakthroughs in glass making. But that is not the whole story by a long shot. It took a young widow with no <a class="read-more" href="https://www.gusclemensonwine.com/a-widow-solves-a-champagne-riddle-7-30-2025/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Sparkling evolution-revolution 7-23-2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wine has been evolving for at least 8,000 years, and so it goes in the world of sparkling wine. First, the basics. Benedictine monk Dom Pérignon invented sparkling wine, exclaiming: “Come quickly, I am tasting the stars?” Nice story, certainly not true. The earliest reference to the Dom Pérignon quote occurred two centuries after the <a class="read-more" href="https://www.gusclemensonwine.com/sparkling-evolution-revolution-7-23-2025/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Days of thine and rosés 7-16-2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 23:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Summmer-time, and sippin’ rosé is easy… fish are jumpin’… and the cotton is high. OK, bastardizing George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess intro may be a déclassé way to introduce a high summer homage to the pink-blush stepchild of both red and white wine. Times change. “One of these mornings you’re going to rise up singing, <a class="read-more" href="https://www.gusclemensonwine.com/days-of-thine-and-roses-7-16-2025/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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