{"id":283,"date":"2014-12-31T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2015-01-07T10:16:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T10:16:09","slug":"store-check-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Store Check: Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-286\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Target-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Target\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Target-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Target-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Target-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/code><\/p>\n<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=2\" alt=\"2 out of 5 stars\" style=\"height: 12px !important;\" \/> (2 \/ 5)<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Love me some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.target.com\" target=\"_blank\">Target<\/a>. Good prices, great pharmacy and a bit more fashion sense than other discounters.<\/p>\n<p>But for all its much-vaunted design sensibility, Target\u00a0isn&#8217;t terribly on target when it comes to Argentine red wines.<\/p>\n<p>The selection is nothing to write home about, lacks even some of the common\u00a0quality high-volume labels (even finding Catena malbec is hit or miss, depending on which location you are at) and the selection tends to skew towards those cute-label brands rather than anything labeled with the name of an actual winemaker who is proud of his craft.<\/p>\n<p>If I had to pick up something here, it would be the <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.alamoswines.com\/en\/ourwines\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alamos Seleccion<\/a>, which got a 90 from Robert Parker. It says Catena on the label and it is a product of that family but it&#8217;s from different vineyards and is actually imported by <em>(gasp)<\/em> Gallo.<\/p>\n<p>Second choice would be Punto Final but the reserve version of this wine is much better than the black label.<\/p>\n<p>The Terrazas (huge seller in the States) is appropriately located on the bottom shelf. I&#8217;m not a fan of their wines.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I would buy my socks, grab a Starbucks latte, and plan to make one more stop at the wine store before heading home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love me some Target. Good prices, great pharmacy and a bit more fashion sense than other discounters. But for all its much-vaunted design sensibility, Target\u00a0isn&#8217;t terribly on target when it comes to Argentine red wines. The selection is nothing to write home about, lacks even some of the common\u00a0quality high-volume labels (even finding Catena malbec &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/?p=283\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Store Check: Target&#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":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRcNu-4z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"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=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}