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Catena Zapata

Catena Zapata Catena Malbec 2022

Red green still

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£144.00

6 bottles

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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 12 months in wooden barrels. The selection of barrels varies depending on the vineyard and vintage. First, second and third passage barrels are used.
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Awards

  • 2022

    92

    /100

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

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Perfume

Perfume

Expressive, with aromas of ripe plum and cherry, accompanied by notes of violets.

Taste

Taste

Voluminous palate, in which the acidity is well integrated and accompanies a long, creamy aftertaste.

Serve at:

16 - 18 °C.

Longevity:

10 - 15 years

Decanting time:

1 hour

Full Bodied and Very Aged Red Wines

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
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Name Catena Zapata Catena Malbec 2022
Type Red green still
Denomination N/A
Vintage 2022
Size 0,75 l
Alcohol content 13.5% by volume
Grape varieties 100% Malbec
Country Argentina
Region Mendoza
Vendor Catena Zapata
Origin Lulunta, El Cepillo and Gualtallary
Climate Altitude: between 920 and 1,450 m.a.s.l.
Soil composition Clayey, silty-clayey and alluvial. The vineyards' soils also contain gravel and limestone.
Wine making This wine goes through a long cold maceration for 5 days at 8.8 ºC to extract the aromas. The must is then fermented for 12 days with a post-fermentation maceration of 19-22 days. Wild yeasts.
Aging 12 months in wooden barrels. The selection of barrels varies depending on the vineyard and vintage. First, second and third passage barrels are used.
Total acidity 5.0 gr/L
PH 3.7
Allergens Contains sulphites