Adrianna Vineyard Fortuna Terrae Malbec 2018

Description

Still red from Argentina, Mendoza, 100% Malbec, produced by Catena Zapata. Adrianna Vineyard Fortuna Terrae Malbec, 2018 vintage, 0.75 liter bottle. A single-vineyard wine from a single vineyard at 1,366 meters above sea level, with alluvial soil rich in limestone. The aromas here are truly captivating, with notes of blackberry and dried strawberry, and nuances of damp earth, green tea, dried flowers, stone, and dust. Full-bodied, tight, and very concentrated, with an equally complex character on the palate, this Malbec perfectly expresses the Argentine terroir.

Details

Perfume

The aromas are really seductive with their notes of blackberry and dried strawberry and nuances of wet earth, green tea, dried flowers, stones and dust.

Taste

Full-bodied, tight and very focused with similarly complex character on the palate.

Serve at:

16 - 18 °C.

Longevity:

10 - 15 years

Decanting time:

1 hour

Producer

Producer

Catena Zapata

From this winery

By the 1960s, however, Familia Catena was struggling. The Argentine economy was in shambles and inflation rates were soaring. One year, Domingo realized that it would cost him more to harvest than to leave the fruit on the vines. He asked his twenty-two year old son Nicolás, a recent PhD graduate in economics, what to do about such a dilemma. Nicolás advised him not to harvest. Domingo could not follow his son’s advice with a clear conscience and picked anyway. Nicolás still remembers the sadness he felt for his father that year.

Nicolás Catena would never use the word about himself - a less boastful spirit, it’s hard to imagine - but he has been the quiet revolutionary in the Catena family history book. He has charted the family’s path to the new frontier of winemaking, drawing on lessons learned from the land and in the classroom, then applying his education to dare to challenge the conventional wisdom.

Taking the reigns of the family vineyards and wineries in the mid 1960s, he concentrated on expanding distribution throughout Argentina during years of turmoil in the 1970s. But in the early 1980s, Nicolás left Argentina to become a visiting professor of economics at the University of California, on the world-renowned campus at Berkeley. The political and economic situation in Argentina was difficult, with a military government that had just declared war on the United Kingdom and inflation rates of more than 1000 per cent per year.

Nicolás set out to develop his own selection of Argentine Malbec clones planting 145 clones in the La Pirámide vineyard. Of these, he selected the best five and began to plant them in different terroirs and altitudes.
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Technical Sheet

Name	Catena Zapata Adrianna Vineyard Fortuna Terrae Malbec 2018
Type	Red still
Denomination	N/A
Vintage	2018
Size	0,75 l
Alcohol content	13.5% by volume
Grape varieties	100% Malbec
Country	Argentina
Region	Mendoza
Vendor	Catena Zapata
Origin	Gualtallary District, Tupungato Alto Region, Uco Valley and Mendoza.
Climate	Altitude: 1,366 m. a.s.l.
Soil composition	Alluvial origin. Deep soil with white limestone-covered stones.
Fermentation temperature	25-30 °C maximum.
Wine making	8 2 days of maceration. Fermentation occurs in 225-litre oak barrels and 500-litre French oak roll-fermenters for 16 days.
Aging	24 months in barrels. The treatment of oak is decided according to the characteristics of the vintage.
Total acidity	7.0 gr/L
PH	3.63
Allergens	Contains sulphites