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		<title>The good oil (not quite)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gareth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortly before we left for our big European tour &#8212; of which more later &#8212; the team from Restaurant Schwass (soon to be relaunched in new premises) popped up to Waipara to harvest our olives. The general idea was that they would take the olives and turn them into oil for the restaurant, and let [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosie&#8217;s first truffle (again)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 03:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gareth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the first truffle of the 2011 season, found by trainee truffle hound Rosie ten days ago. We&#8217;ve been stepping up her training over the last few weeks, and she&#8217;s become very proficient at finding baits (35mm film canisters with small holes, truffle oil on cotton wool inside) buried around the garden. But before I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring sprung (last truffle)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gareth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time to declare the truffle season at Limestone Hills officially over. This morning we had truffled scrambled eggs for breakfast with daughter, nephew and niece (there&#8217;s a bit left over to go into a ripe camembert), and I very much doubt there any more to be found. Rosie (left, photo courtesy of Trish Coleman from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosie&#8217;s first truffle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 04:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gareth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introducing new truffle hound Rosie, who joined us at Limestone Hills last Saturday and found* her first truffle on Sunday morning. Not bad for an eight week old pup&#8230; Here she is with the truffle&#8230; &#8230;which eventually weighed in at 188 grams, the largest I&#8217;ve yet found at the Hills (though a tiddler in record [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peg&#8217;s last gig</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 06:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gareth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asia Downunder have just uploaded their recent programme on Professor Wang Yun and truffles, and as you&#8217;ll see, Peg has something of a starring role. She was more coherent than me, anyway. There&#8217;s plenty of fungal interest too, with shots of bianchetto truffles at David Powell&#8217;s truffière down the road, and picking saffron milk caps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The purple fingers of oblivion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 08:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gareth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The purple fingers are from the wine we bottled today: 22.5 cases of Faultline pinot noir and 11.5 cases of Côtes du Waipara syrah, oblivion a warm place under a duvet in the near future. The bottling was done by hand, which means with a syphon into the barrel of wine (racked off its lees), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wine update: grapes nearly ready&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 04:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gareth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2010 grape harvest is getting closer: the grapes are ripening well, and we&#8217;re aiming to pick them on Easter Sunday. Time to muster friends and family and offer them a good feed&#8230; This year the wine is being made by our neighbours at Waipara West, and I&#8217;ll be helping out by doing some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truffle dogs and Chinese truffles (but not Chinese truffle dogs)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gareth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since we&#8217;re in catching up mode, here a couple of articles I&#8217;ve been meaning to make available for some time. The first is a paper [PDF] on Chinese truffles commissioned by Gastronomica (the prestigious US food and culture journal) in 2008, which draws heavily on my experiences in China in 2007. It discusses the impact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second wine: 2009 syrah &amp; pinot to be bottled soon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gareth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stunning, that&#8217;s what Nicholas said. The winemaker, that is, about our first syrah. Quite made my day, I can tell you. I tasted a barrel sample today, and I have to say I thought it was pretty good &#8212; though naturally I&#8217;m biased. The pinot&#8217;s not bad either: a lot more colour and complexity than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas, wishes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gareth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boxing Day, and hangdog shame strikes. No updates to On The Farm since April. Plenty of effort at the other place, but naught here since the pinot harvest (which went well, thanks to help from friends). We have a barrel of pinot and a half barrel of syrah to bottle in a couple of months [...]]]></description>
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