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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://www.guildsomm.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/atom.xsl" media="screen"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en-US"><title type="html">Announcements</title><subtitle type="html" /><id>https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/atom</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/atom" /><generator uri="http://telligent.com" version="13.0.1.31442">Telligent Community (Build: 13.0.1.31442)</generator><updated>2020-08-28T07:41:00Z</updated><entry><title>Fortified Wine</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/fortified-wine" /><id>https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/fortified-wine</id><published>2024-12-20T17:15:00Z</published><updated>2024-12-20T17:15:00Z</updated><content type="html">We&amp;#39;ve released a new expert guide, &lt;a href="/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2684/fortified-wine" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;all about fortified wine&lt;/a&gt;. This is a&amp;nbsp;guide we&amp;#39;ve wanted to bring to you for a long time, so we are thrilled to finally share it! Many thanks to &lt;a href="/members/demetri-walters" class="internal-link view-user-profile"&gt;Demetri Walters MW&lt;/a&gt; for his work putting this together.
In t...(&lt;a href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/fortified-wine"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://www.guildsomm.com/aggbug?PostID=17230&amp;AppID=8019&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>GuildSomm Admin</name><uri>https://www.guildsomm.com/members/adminadmin32</uri></author></entry><entry><title>Canada</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/canada" /><id>https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/canada</id><published>2024-06-14T20:11:00Z</published><updated>2024-06-14T20:11:00Z</updated><content type="html">We are excited to announce our latest expert guide, focused on the wines of Canada. Learn about Canada&amp;#39;s history, geography, climate, wine law, grapes, and regions. Read an excerpt of the new guide below, and &lt;a href="/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;find the full version in the expert guide...&lt;/a&gt;(&lt;a href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/canada"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://www.guildsomm.com/aggbug?PostID=17198&amp;AppID=8019&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>GuildSomm Admin</name><uri>https://www.guildsomm.com/members/adminadmin32</uri></author><category term="canada" scheme="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/archive/tags/canada" /><category term="Expert Guide" scheme="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/archive/tags/Expert%2bGuide" /></entry><entry><title>Portugal: Dry Wines</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/portugal-dry-wines" /><id>https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/portugal-dry-wines</id><published>2024-05-01T18:15:00Z</published><updated>2024-05-01T18:15:00Z</updated><content type="html">We are excited to announce our latest expert guide, focused on &lt;a href="/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2680/portugal-dry-wines"&gt;the dry wines of Portugal.&lt;/a&gt; Learn about Portugal&amp;#39;s history, geography, climate, wine law, grapes, and regions, and gain an understanding of&amp;nbsp;why the country&amp;#39;s dry wines are inc...(&lt;a href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/portugal-dry-wines"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://www.guildsomm.com/aggbug?PostID=17189&amp;AppID=8019&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>GuildSomm Admin</name><uri>https://www.guildsomm.com/members/adminadmin32</uri></author></entry><entry><title>Southern Italy</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/southern-italy" /><id>https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/southern-italy</id><published>2023-11-09T23:00:00Z</published><updated>2023-11-09T23:00:00Z</updated><content type="html">We&amp;#39;ve&amp;nbsp;released&amp;nbsp;our Southern Italy Expert Guide, written by&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/members/michael-markarian" class="internal-link view-user-profile"&gt;Michael Markarian&lt;/a&gt;! This is the final installment of our Italy expert guide series, joining our&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2461/italy-part-i-introduction-to-italy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;introductory&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2624/italy-part-iii-northern-italy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;northern Italy&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2462/italy-part-ii-central-italy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;central Italy&lt;/a&gt; guides.
Read an excerpt of t...(&lt;a href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/southern-italy"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://www.guildsomm.com/aggbug?PostID=17151&amp;AppID=8019&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>GuildSomm Admin</name><uri>https://www.guildsomm.com/members/adminadmin32</uri></author></entry><entry><title>Northern Italy</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/northern-italy" /><id>https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/northern-italy</id><published>2023-07-07T05:32:00Z</published><updated>2023-07-07T05:32:00Z</updated><content type="html">Our new expert guide, written by&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/members/michael-markarian" class="internal-link view-user-profile"&gt;Michael Markarian&lt;/a&gt;, explores the wines of northern Italy. This is our third of four expert guides&amp;nbsp;on Italy. We previously published an&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2461/introduction-to-italy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;introduction to Italy&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and a guide&amp;nbsp;covering&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2462/italy-part-ii-central-italy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;central It...&lt;/a&gt;(&lt;a href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/northern-italy"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://www.guildsomm.com/aggbug?PostID=17113&amp;AppID=8019&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>GuildSomm Admin</name><uri>https://www.guildsomm.com/members/adminadmin32</uri></author></entry><entry><title>Champagne Viticulture and Winemaking</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/champagne-viticulture-and-winemaking" /><id>https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/champagne-viticulture-and-winemaking</id><published>2023-03-24T16:01:00Z</published><updated>2023-03-24T16:01:00Z</updated><content type="html">We are wrapping up our Champagne expert guide series with &lt;a href="/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2564/champagne-viticulture-and-winemaking" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;a third and final installment focused on&amp;nbsp;viticulture and winemaking practices in Champagne&lt;/a&gt;. This guide, like the &lt;a href="/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2552/introduction-to-champagne" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;introductory&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2433/history-of-champagne" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;history&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;guides, was written by Champagne authority&amp;amp;n...(&lt;a href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/champagne-viticulture-and-winemaking"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://www.guildsomm.com/aggbug?PostID=17096&amp;AppID=8019&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>GuildSomm Admin</name><uri>https://www.guildsomm.com/members/adminadmin32</uri></author></entry><entry><title>Introduction to Champagne</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/introduction-to-champagne-175577995" /><id>https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/introduction-to-champagne-175577995</id><published>2022-12-29T19:45:00Z</published><updated>2022-12-29T19:45:00Z</updated><content type="html">Our final expert guide of 2022, written by&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/members/tomstevenson2841" class="internal-link view-user-profile"&gt;Tom Stevenson&lt;/a&gt;, is all about Champagne! This guide offers the most general overview of Champagne, while&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2433/history-of-champagne" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;our existing guide covers history&lt;/a&gt;, and a final installment planned for early next year will fo...(&lt;a href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/introduction-to-champagne-175577995"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://www.guildsomm.com/aggbug?PostID=17079&amp;AppID=8019&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>GuildSomm Admin</name><uri>https://www.guildsomm.com/members/adminadmin32</uri></author></entry><entry><title>Loire Valley</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/loire-valley" /><id>https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/loire-valley</id><published>2022-11-18T16:24:00Z</published><updated>2022-11-18T16:24:00Z</updated><content type="html">Our latest expert guide, written by&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/members/rebecca-gibb" class="internal-link view-user-profile"&gt;Rebecca Gibb&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;MW and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/members/beverley-blanning-" class="internal-link view-user-profile"&gt;Beverley Blanning MW&lt;/a&gt;, covers the wines of the Loire Valley. Read an excerpt below, or &lt;a href="/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2551/loire-valley"&gt;click over to the Expert section&lt;/a&gt; to read the whole thing!

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Loire Valley Win...(&lt;a href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/loire-valley"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://www.guildsomm.com/aggbug?PostID=17068&amp;AppID=8019&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>GuildSomm Admin</name><uri>https://www.guildsomm.com/members/adminadmin32</uri></author></entry><entry><title>Cognac</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/cognac" /><id>https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/cognac</id><published>2022-04-29T16:11:00Z</published><updated>2022-04-29T16:11:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;a href="/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2499/cognac"&gt;Our latest expert guide offers a deep dive into Cognac&lt;/a&gt;! With a particular emphasis on the history of Cognac, this guide explores the development of the category, the region&amp;#39;s geography and geology, production methods, cocktails, service, and more. Fi...(&lt;a href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/cognac"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://www.guildsomm.com/aggbug?PostID=17022&amp;AppID=8019&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>GuildSomm Admin</name><uri>https://www.guildsomm.com/members/adminadmin32</uri></author></entry><entry><title>Sonoma</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/sonoma-expert-guide" /><id>https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/sonoma-expert-guide</id><published>2021-08-20T18:27:00Z</published><updated>2021-08-20T18:27:00Z</updated><content type="html">Our new expert guide, developed by&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/members/brycewiatrak14948" class="internal-link view-user-profile"&gt;Bryce Wiatrak&lt;/a&gt;, focuses on Sonoma County. Read an excerpt below,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2474/sonoma-county-north-coast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;then continue on to the full guide&lt;/a&gt;!

At the north of the San Francisco Bay Area, Sonoma County is one of the most recognizable wine countries...(&lt;a href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/sonoma-expert-guide"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://www.guildsomm.com/aggbug?PostID=16988&amp;AppID=8019&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>GuildSomm Admin</name><uri>https://www.guildsomm.com/members/adminadmin32</uri></author></entry><entry><title>New Zealand Expert Guide</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/new-zealand-expert-guide" /><id>https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/new-zealand-expert-guide</id><published>2021-06-04T22:28:00Z</published><updated>2021-06-04T22:28:00Z</updated><content type="html">Our latest expert guide covers New Zealand.&amp;nbsp;Compiled&amp;nbsp;by MW&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/members/rebecca-gibb" class="internal-link view-user-profile"&gt;Rebecca Gibb&lt;/a&gt;, it&amp;nbsp;discusses the history, grapes, and regions of this important winegrowing country.&amp;nbsp;Read an excerpt below, or&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2470/new-zealand" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;click over to the full guide&lt;/a&gt;.

New Z...(&lt;a href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/new-zealand-expert-guide"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://www.guildsomm.com/aggbug?PostID=16976&amp;AppID=8019&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>GuildSomm Admin</name><uri>https://www.guildsomm.com/members/adminadmin32</uri></author></entry><entry><title>Part II: Central Italy</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/part-ii-central-italy" /><id>https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/part-ii-central-italy</id><published>2020-12-17T16:32:00Z</published><updated>2020-12-17T16:32:00Z</updated><content type="html">Compiled by&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="internal-link view-user-profile" href="/members/brycewiatrak14948"&gt;Bryce Wiatrak&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2462/italy-part-ii-central-italy"&gt;our latest expert guide&lt;/a&gt; tackles the wine regions of Central Italy. It is the second in a four-part series&amp;nbsp;about the wines of Italy.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2461/introduction-to-italy"&gt;Part I&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a broad introduction to Italy&amp;#39;s history, land, wine law, and ...(&lt;a href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/part-ii-central-italy"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://www.guildsomm.com/aggbug?PostID=16944&amp;AppID=8019&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>GuildSomm Admin</name><uri>https://www.guildsomm.com/members/adminadmin32</uri></author></entry><entry><title>Introduction to Italy</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/introduction-to-italy" /><id>https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/introduction-to-italy</id><published>2020-12-03T18:50:00Z</published><updated>2020-12-03T18:50:00Z</updated><content type="html">Our latest expert guide, compiled by&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/members/brycewiatrak14948" class="internal-link view-user-profile"&gt;Bryce Wiatrak&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;is the first part of a four-part series all about the wines of Italy. Read it&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2461/introduction-to-italy"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.
Part II, focused on the wines of Central Italy, will be available to GuildSomm members later this m...(&lt;a href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/introduction-to-italy"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://www.guildsomm.com/aggbug?PostID=16941&amp;AppID=8019&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>GuildSomm Admin</name><uri>https://www.guildsomm.com/members/adminadmin32</uri></author></entry><entry><title>Viticulture</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/viticulture" /><id>https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/viticulture</id><published>2020-09-17T19:37:00Z</published><updated>2020-09-17T19:37:00Z</updated><content type="html">



Our latest expert guide, compiled by &lt;a href="/members/jennifer-angelosante"&gt;Jennifer Angelosante&lt;/a&gt;, covers all things viticulture! Start reading&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2450/viticulture"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.










(&lt;a href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/viticulture"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://www.guildsomm.com/aggbug?PostID=16917&amp;AppID=8019&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>GuildSomm Admin</name><uri>https://www.guildsomm.com/members/adminadmin32</uri></author></entry><entry><title>Austria</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/austria-expert-guide" /><id>https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/austria-expert-guide</id><published>2020-08-28T14:41:00Z</published><updated>2020-08-28T14:41:00Z</updated><content type="html">Our latest expert guide, compiled by&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/members/ashley-vaughters18551" class="internal-link view-user-profile"&gt;Ashley Hausman MW&lt;/a&gt;, is all about Austria! Start reading&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2449/austria"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.(&lt;a href="https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/expert-guides/b/announcements/posts/austria-expert-guide"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://www.guildsomm.com/aggbug?PostID=16914&amp;AppID=8019&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>GuildSomm Admin</name><uri>https://www.guildsomm.com/members/adminadmin32</uri></author></entry></feed>