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		<title>Surprise at Orange County Fair</title>
		<link>http://www.vintagegardengal.com/2010/06/30/surprise-at-orange-county-fair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Manion</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vineyard to Vintage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backyard syrah vineyard]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Merrah Blend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orange County Home Winemaker Competition 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robin Dujanovic Graphic Artist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Diego County Home Winemaker Competition 2010]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My husband, John and I had been encouraged to enter our wines in this year&#8217;s 34th Orange County Fair 2010 Home Winemaker Competition. The Orange County Home Winemaker Competition is larger in number of participants and California geographical representation than the San Diego County Fair Home Winemaker Competition.
Last year&#8217;s Orange County Fair Home Winemaker Competition had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trifecta at the Fair</title>
		<link>http://www.vintagegardengal.com/2010/06/21/trifecta-at-the-fair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Manion</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Home Made Wine Competition San Diego County Fair  2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mira Costa College Wine Technology Certificate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robin Dujanovic Graphic Artist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wine Label Contest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This past year we have been so busy with our home remodel,  I haven&#8217;t written much about our backyard vineyard, now in its fifth year. With one&#8217;s own vineyard, life does go on. The grapes need to be tended to, the grapevines do grow, the grapevines flower and tiny grape clusters begin to emerge. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sun Sets On &#8220;Le Vin de Garage&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.vintagegardengal.com/2010/03/31/sun-sets-on-le-vin-de-garage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vintagegardengal.com/2010/03/31/sun-sets-on-le-vin-de-garage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Manion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Remodel Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vineyard to Vintage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Good Year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boutique wines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Domaine de Manion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Le Vin de Garage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Mayle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ridley Scott]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the hardest part of a home remodel, is letting go of the old. Soon, it will be out with the old, and in with the new. It really is not that cut and dry. We have carefully thought this through, and tipped the scale in favor of our new barn.
In the above photo, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pat Welsh Paints Our Vineyard</title>
		<link>http://www.vintagegardengal.com/2010/03/04/pat-welsh-paints-our-vineyard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vintagegardengal.com/2010/03/04/pat-welsh-paints-our-vineyard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Manion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vineyard to Vintage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Domaine de Manion vineyard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first vineyard harvest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of you know Pat Welsh for her incredibly well-written garden books, and the fact that she is a writer, speaker, and garden guru. Did you know, however, she is also a very gifted and talented painter. Her painting is a passion. My husband and I absolutely adore Pat, and adore her painting style.
A few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wintertime Beauty in the Vineyard</title>
		<link>http://www.vintagegardengal.com/2010/01/22/wintertime-beauty-in-the-vineyard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vintagegardengal.com/2010/01/22/wintertime-beauty-in-the-vineyard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Manion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vineyard to Vintage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dormant vineyard beautiful in its simplicity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grape grower's reflections]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Southern California has been experiencing wave after wave of rain storms this past week, complete with high winds, thunder, lightning, and lots of rain. It doesn&#8217;t take long for innate nettle seeds in our sandy soil to come alive as a vibrant green carpet in our backyard Domaine de Manion vineyard.
This is a point in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Spirits On Harvest Day</title>
		<link>http://www.vintagegardengal.com/2009/09/19/high-spirits-on-harvest-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Manion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vineyard to Vintage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backyard vineyard harvest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grape crusher/destemmer machine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grape fermentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[syrah grape harvest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thoughts on harvest day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is an accumulation of hours and days spent tending the vineyard. It is thousands and thousands of footsteps taken through the rows of vines with care. It is the weather and how it behaved throughout the year. It is the vines, and how themselves continue to grow and mature.  It is how the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syrah Grape Shows Its True Color</title>
		<link>http://www.vintagegardengal.com/2009/08/21/syrah-grape-shows-its-true-color/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vintagegardengal.com/2009/08/21/syrah-grape-shows-its-true-color/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Manion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vineyard to Vintage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chickens eat grapes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grapes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grapevines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[netting protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sugar levels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[syrah grapes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[verasion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here at Domaine de Manion, our backyard syrah vineyard, it is late summer and our syrah grapes are showing their true color. Our syrah grapevines have a full vegetative leaf canopy, perfectly formed grape clusters dangle from their shoots, and now the veraison process begins. Veraison is the phenomenon of grapes transitioning in their development [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Ribbon At The Fair</title>
		<link>http://www.vintagegardengal.com/2009/06/29/blue-ribbon-at-the-fair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vintagegardengal.com/2009/06/29/blue-ribbon-at-the-fair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Manion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vineyard to Vintage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Domaine de Manion vineyard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manion Blue Ribbon '09 For Syrah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Diego County Fair Wine Competition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syrah Wine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vintagegardengal.com/?p=3478</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I would encourage all of you to visit your local, regional, or state fair this summer. Fairs are a slice of Americana, a part of our American culture. School is out, and the summer lifestyle has switched into gear. If you have a passion for something, like our wine-making, enter it in the fair, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grapevines Awakening to Spring</title>
		<link>http://www.vintagegardengal.com/2009/04/13/grapevines-awakening-to-spring/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vintagegardengal.com/2009/04/13/grapevines-awakening-to-spring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Manion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vineyard to Vintage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grapevine bud break]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grapevine canopy management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spur pruning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vertical shoot trellis system]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here at Domaine de Manion (DDM), in our backyard vineyard, we finished our spur pruning in February, and knocked down most of the winter weeds. Spur pruning is cutting last year&#8217;s grapevine canes down to two nodes or buds at each spur, off of the cordons. It is an individual management practice how many spurs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Much Ado&#8221; in the Winter Vineyard</title>
		<link>http://www.vintagegardengal.com/2009/02/16/much-ado-in-the-winter-vineyard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vintagegardengal.com/2009/02/16/much-ado-in-the-winter-vineyard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Manion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vineyard to Vintage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Backyard Vineyard Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dormancy Grapevine Pruning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grapevine Spur Pruning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winter Tasks in Vineyard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago,  I wrote a post called &#8220;Rest, Repose, and Replenish&#8221;, the dormancy time in a garden during winter. This time of year has a different kind of beauty, and a peaceful mood beckoning everything to slow down and replenish.  The same beautiful dormancy happens with a vineyard, too.
After the culmination [...]]]></description>
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