<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418236895000159285</id><updated>2011-07-07T17:29:13.561-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ABV Wine Talk</title><subtitle type='html'>Alexis Bailly Vineyard is Minnesota's oldest winery, established in 1972. Follow us as we explore what's happening here at the winery and in the world of Minnesota wines.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abvwinetalk.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4418236895000159285/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abvwinetalk.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Alexis Bailly Vineyard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04433079404460432342</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2ODZA2lbvOk/SncuZ0NgnYI/AAAAAAAAAA4/3YCZHsn2LuE/S220/winery.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418236895000159285.post-7478723095783511264</id><published>2009-08-03T12:33:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T13:45:35.084-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome to the Blog-o-sphere</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;We here at Alexis Bailly Vineyard are not really super-sophisticated when it comes to modern technology. We still have a dial-up connection for the internet and a rotary phone in our office. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We make wine the old fashioned way. We don't have computers to monitor our fermentations, we punch down our caps by hand, no automated bottling machine here. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;No, when we want to bottle wine we just call a bunch of our friends and hand fill every bottle with an old gravity-fed 6 bottle GAI bottling machine. Hand filled, corked, capped and labeled. Sure it takes all day, but as a friend who uses a &lt;font class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;font class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;4 bottle&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt; GAI bottling machine in his Napa Valley winery says, "I like bottling...if I finished too early I'd have to do something else." Thank you Andy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So what are we doing here in the blog-o-sphere? That's a good question. It's not that we think we can add anything to this already crowded universe out here on the web. Mostly it's just that we wanted to share with you some of our thoughts on wine and events at the winery.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And to hear back from &lt;font class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;font class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;you&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;. That's what this technology is really about, sharing ideas and experiences. So if you have a comment on the wines, or an experience you've had at the winery, we want to hear about it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hopefully you'll check back once in a while to see what's going on out here on the prairie, where we make wine for you to enjoy...one bottle at a time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2ODZA2lbvOk/SncpIAm81ZI/AAAAAAAAAAM/i2K5p1whXyc/s320/bottling-machine.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365802698614298002"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4418236895000159285-7478723095783511264?l=abvwinetalk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://abvwinetalk.blogspot.com/feeds/7478723095783511264/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://abvwinetalk.blogspot.com/2009/08/welcome-to-blog-o-sphere.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4418236895000159285/posts/default/7478723095783511264'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4418236895000159285/posts/default/7478723095783511264'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://abvwinetalk.blogspot.com/2009/08/welcome-to-blog-o-sphere.html' title='Welcome to the Blog-o-sphere'/><author><name>Alexis Bailly Vineyard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04433079404460432342</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2ODZA2lbvOk/SncuZ0NgnYI/AAAAAAAAAA4/3YCZHsn2LuE/S220/winery.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2ODZA2lbvOk/SncpIAm81ZI/AAAAAAAAAAM/i2K5p1whXyc/s72-c/bottling-machine.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry></feed>
