{"id":17,"date":"2015-01-03T02:38:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T02:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2015-01-03T18:29:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T18:29:04","slug":"store-check-whole-foods-market-birmingham-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Store Check: Whole Foods Market, Birmingham, AL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><img class=\"usr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/universal-star-rating\/includes\/image.php?img=01.png&amp;px=12&amp;max=5&amp;rat=3.5\" alt=\"3.5 out of 5 stars\" style=\"height: 12px !important;\" \/> (3.5 \/ 5)<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Whole Foods hit town with an astonishing assortment of high end wines at grand opening. It looked like it was going to give neighborhood favorite Western Supermarket a real run for its money. A few years later, it seems that the $60-80 product (big California cabs, etc.) has been pared in favor of more sub-$20 choices.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wholefoodsaisle-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"wholefoodsaisle\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wholefoodsaisle-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wholefoodsaisle-174x131.jpg 174w, https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wholefoodsaisle-70x53.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wholefoodsaisle.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Argentine Red aisle looks fine, though it&#8217;s hardly the most compelling choice in town. But there are still two compelling reasons to shop here.<\/p>\n<p>1) Since you can buy a bottle and drink a glass\u00a0at the counter at the Brasserie while they cook you a grass-fed Tenderloin you&#8217;ve picked out yourself at the butcher shop, you can create\u00a0your own poor-man&#8217;s parrilla right off US 280.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/state-malbec.png\" alt=\"state-malbec\" width=\"84\" height=\"273\" \/>2) The semi-annual 20% off case sale. The one to pick up\u00a0here is Colom\u00e8 Estate Malbec, priced at $28.99. It&#8217;s from Salta, in the northern provinces, and now owned by the Hess family out of Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whole Foods hit town with an astonishing assortment of high end wines at grand opening. It looked like it was going to give neighborhood favorite Western Supermarket a real run for its money. A few years later, it seems that the $60-80 product (big California cabs, etc.) has been pared in favor of more sub-$20 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/?p=17\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Store Check: Whole Foods Market, Birmingham, AL&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[22],"tags":[16,11,15,17],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRcNu-h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}