{"id":530,"date":"2009-11-20T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/20\/report-from-celebrate-argentina-november-10-2009\/"},"modified":"2009-11-20T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T16:15:00","slug":"report-from-celebrate-argentina-november-10-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/20\/report-from-celebrate-argentina-november-10-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from &#8211; Celebrate Argentina &#8230; November 10, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBefore I kick off this review of the most recent Argentina tasting to be held in Toronto, I thought I would offer a few words of advice to those wineries &ldquo;seeking representation&rdquo; here in Ontario:&nbsp; Stop talking to your buddy, get off the phone and pay attention to who&rsquo;s in front of you.&nbsp; There were 5 wineries from this South American country who were listed as &lsquo;seeking&rsquo; and plenty of agents doing some seeking of their own, looking for the next big wine for the Ontario market (or at least something good to add to their portfolio); but more often then not those &lsquo;seeking&rsquo; were too busy gabbing with their fellow countrymen to pay attention to those standing in front of them &hellip; keep doing that and you&rsquo;ll be &lsquo;seeking representation&rsquo; for quite some time to come.&nbsp; Now, shut up and pour the wine.<\/p>\n<p>Alright, enough advice for wineries trying to crack into Canada&rsquo;s largest market; time for my advice as to which Argentinean wines you should be looking for next time you make that trek to the liquor store &ndash; there are plenty of good Argentine wines at good prices and many of them involve the Malbec grape &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/ontheroadwithgrapeguy.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/report-from-celebrate-argentina.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Read about the top 5 Malbecs and the rest of the impressive Argentinean wines tasted<\/span><\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ontheroadwithgrapeguy.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">To read about more interesting adventures thru the world of wine check out the On the Road With the Grape Guy blog.<\/span><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I kick off this review of the most recent Argentina tasting to be held in Toronto, I thought I would offer a few words of advice to those wineries &ldquo;seeking representation&rdquo; here in Ontario:&nbsp; Stop talking to your buddy, get off the phone and pay attention to who&rsquo;s in front of you.&nbsp; There were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-road-with-the-grape-guy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}