{"id":301,"date":"2015-01-10T04:49:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T04:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2015-01-10T04:54:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T04:54:46","slug":"store-check-western-supermarket-mountain-brook-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"Store Check: Western Supermarket, Mountain Brook, AL"},"content":{"rendered":"<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=4\" alt=\"4 out of 5 stars\" style=\"height: 12px !important;\" \/> (4 \/ 5)\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The best place to buy wine in Alabama just may be&#8230; a supermarket.<\/p>\n<p>Newcomers to the Birmingham area are shocked when neighbors\u00a0tell them\u00a0to go\u00a0shop at this innocuous\u00a0market in a\u00a0Birmingham suburb for serious wine. Mountain Brook is one of the most affluent ZIP Codes in the country, and the well-heeled folks\u00a0around here know a good bottle when they see one.<\/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\/39-OlZlJEPU?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>The Western in Mountain Brook has a full-time wine buyer who knows what he&#8217;s doing. The selection skews towards high-end Italian, American, and French wines. South Africa is also well represented.<\/p>\n<p>And there is a very respectable\u00a0Argentine inventory &#8211; I would say a little smaller than in previous years (I don&#8217;t particularly like that Spanish and Chilean wine starting to encroach on my\u00a0Malbec aisle&#8230;.)\u00a0But you&#8217;ll find some interesting\u00a0choices. The locals like Antis Reserve, Catena is respectably priced at $19.99 (but Costco has it\u00a0cheaper) and there are some decent midrange selections like Luigi Bosca D.O.C, Enamore, and Vina Cobos&#8217; low-end Felino. Alma Negra is fairly popular in Argentina, as I remember.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7178.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7178-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7178\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7178-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7178-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7178-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7177.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7177-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7177\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7177-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7177-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7177-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7174.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-302\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7174-631x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7174\" width=\"672\" height=\"1091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7174-631x1024.jpg 631w, https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7174-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7174-308x500.jpg 308w, https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7174.jpg 2011w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Up on the top shelf are some of the Trapiche single-vineyards (highly rated), Cheval de Andes (a bit overpriced) and a number of things I&#8217;ve never heard of. Anyone tried these?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7176-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7176\" width=\"670\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7176-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7176-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7176-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For my money, the Western is one of the\u00a0<em>three<\/em> best places to buy Argentine malbec in Birmingham. Shortly, I&#8217;ll be telling you about the other two.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The best place to buy wine in Alabama just may be&#8230; a supermarket. Newcomers to the Birmingham area are shocked when neighbors\u00a0tell them\u00a0to go\u00a0shop at this innocuous\u00a0market in a\u00a0Birmingham suburb for serious wine. Mountain Brook is one of the most affluent ZIP Codes in the country, and the well-heeled folks\u00a0around here know a good &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/?p=301\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Store Check: Western Supermarket, Mountain Brook, 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":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRcNu-4R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301"}],"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=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drinkingargentina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}