• Catena Zapata Catena Alta Malbec 2021
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Catena Zapata

Catena Zapata Catena Alta Malbec 2021

Red still

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Denomination N/A
Size 0,75 l
Alcohol content 13.5% by volume
Area Mendoza (Argentina)
Grape varieties 100% Malbec
Aging 18 months in French oak.
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Awards

  • 2021

    95

    /100

    James Suckling is an influential American wine critic and journalist who worked at Wine Spectator for 30 years. He left the magazine in 2010 to start his own website and guidebook (JamesSuckling.com). He specialises in Italian and Bordeaux wines.

  • 2021

    95

    /100

    Vinous is the online guide from Antonio Galloni, one of the world's leading wine connoisseurs.

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Details

Profumo

Perfume

On the nose, aromas of red fruits such as raspberry and blackberry, accompanied by floral hints and notes of bitter chocolate, with a touch of liquorice

Colore

Color

Bright ruby red.

Gusto

Taste

On the palate, the wine is mature, dense and structured.

Serve at:

16 - 18 °C.

Longevity:

10 - 15 years

Decanting time:

1 hour

Full Bodied and Very Aged Red Wines

Pairings

Meat
Cheese
Matured cheese
Pork

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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Production area: Mendoza
Mendoza
Catena Zapata

Name Catena Zapata Catena Alta Malbec 2021
Type Red still
Denomination N/A
Vintage 2021
Size 0,75 l
Alcohol content 13.5% by volume
Grape varieties 100% Malbec
Country Argentina
Region Mendoza
Vendor Catena Zapata
Origin Angelica Vineyard, Maipú, Luján de Cuyo
Climate Altitude: 920 ,450 m. a.s.l.
Soil composition Aluvial origin.
Harvest The vineyard lots are harvested at different times to ensure optimal natural acidity and moderate alcohol levels.
Wine making The whole berries are hand-picked in small fermentation boxes and 225-500-litre barrels. The batches from each vineyard are treated individually. Fermentation and maceration last 28-30 days with wild yeasts. Then, alcoholic and malolactic fermentation occurs in barrels. The wine undergoes active bâtonnage to protect it and drastically reduce the amount of SO2 required.
Aging 18 months in French oak.
Total acidity 6.0 gr/L
PH 3.61
Allergens Contains sulphites