Catena Zapata Nicolas Catena Zapata 2018

描述

With the inaugural vintage of 1997, Nicolás Catena Zapata became Argentina's first luxury cuvée exported worldwide. The wine recreates the 'original Bordeaux blend' of the 18th and 19th centuries when Malbec dominated Merlot and was par with Cabernet Sauvignon in the Médoc. Pre-grafted selections of Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon from ungrafted vines give rise to this wine, opening a window to the past from the mountain vineyards of Mendoza, Argentina.

詳細資訊

香水

The nose reveals fruity and floral aromas, accompanied by notes of liquorice.

顏色

Ruby red with purple reflections.

味道

On the palate, the wine is fresh, mineral and rich.

服務於：

16 - 18 °C.

長壽：

Over 25 years

醒酒時間：

1 hour

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Catena Zapata

來自這個酒莊

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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技術規格表

名称	Catena Zapata Nicolas Catena Zapata 2018
类型	Red still
葡萄酒名称	N/A
年份	2018
容量	0,75 l
酒精度	14.0% 按體積
葡萄品种	65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Malbec
国家	Argentina
产地	Mendoza
供应商	Catena Zapata
收获	By hand. Some vine plots are fermented whole clusters to improve tannic structure and freshness.
发酵温度	26-28 ºC
发酵	About 10 5 days.
酿酒工艺	Fermentation occurs in 500-litre oak barrels, cement and stainless steel tanks at temperatures of 26-28ºC for approximately 10 5 days. Post-fermentation maceration lasts between 5 and 10 days.
陈酿	The wine undergoes malolactic fermentation and is then aged in French oak barrels for 18 months.
总酸度	5.8 gr/L
克/升/升 (LPH)	3.72