{"id":290,"date":"2015-01-04T03:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T03:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2015-11-10T03:13:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T03:13:29","slug":"an-8-malbec-at-whole-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"An $8 malbec at Whole Foods?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/8DollarMalbec.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/8DollarMalbec-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"8DollarMalbec\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/8DollarMalbec-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/8DollarMalbec-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/8DollarMalbec-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bodegas Belgrano Malbec<\/p>\n<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)\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Time to atone for that $200 bottle of Cobos.<\/p>\n<p>I figure my job\u00a0is to make the mistakes, so you don&#8217;t have to.<\/p>\n<p>So when I saw this $7.99 bottle at Whole Foods Market, I decided to take one for the team.<\/p>\n<p>The wine is\u00a0called Bodegas Belgrano.<\/p>\n<p>Never heard of it. In. My Life.<\/p>\n<p>(If the audio were louder,\u00a0my skepticism would come through even more clearly.)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ykOE9tlQ2fA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And the verdict&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Is it good?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, yeah. In its own way. But so is Kool-Aid.<\/p>\n<p>This stuff is jammy, jammy, jammy.\u00a0Light-bodied and fruit forward &#8211; almost like an\u00a0inexpensive Zinfandel.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had worse $12 wines, to be sure. There&#8217;s nothing overly barnyard, tannic, muddy,\u00a0or obnoxious about it. And I wouldn&#8217;t avoid this. But I also wouldn&#8217;t give it as a gift.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nuNfJEP-mkM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bodegas Belgrano Malbec &nbsp; Time to atone for that $200 bottle of Cobos. I figure my job\u00a0is to make the mistakes, so you don&#8217;t have to. So when I saw this $7.99 bottle at Whole Foods Market, I decided to take one for the team. The wine is\u00a0called Bodegas Belgrano. Never heard of it. In. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/?p=290\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An $8 malbec at Whole Foods?&#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":[23],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRcNu-4G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"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=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}