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		<title>Crafting a Northwest Sparkling Wine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(GH: Radio producer Anna King of the Northwest News Network reports on a Washington winemaker&#8217;s work at brewing local bubbly. Cheers.) KENNEWICK, Wash. &#8212; Christmas is over. But a portly guy with a white beard is still hard at work in his workshop. He&#8217;s not making toys in the North Pole, but rather bottles of sparkling wine in southeast Washington. Correspondent Anna King has this profile of one of the Northwest&#8217;s few producers of sparkling wine. Making bubbly is part chemistry, and part art. Allan Pangborn works every day for a year to ready 12-thousand bottles for life&#8217;s high spots. He has a few friends and family members help him bottle the wine, then the real work begins. Allan Pangborn: “It&#8217;s very specialized as opposed to making regular wine. Making regular wine the equipment is pretty much the same: Crushers, presses and bottling equipment. With sparkling wine you start with a regular wine you add yeast…” It typically takes about a year for sparkling wine to mature. After that Pangborn puts the bottles, neck down in special racks to let the yeast settle out slowly. Each day he has to give the bottle a quarter turn to help the yeast [...]]]></description>
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