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Catena Zapata
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Argentina's Bodega Catena Zapata was founded in 1902 on high-altitude terroirs in the Andean foothills of the Mendoza wine region. Several generations of the Catena family have contributed to making this estate one of the most renowned in Argentina, restoring the prestige of the endemic Argentinian grape variety, Malbec..
The great economic crisis of the 1960s in Argentina forced the family to completely rethink the method of vinification of the wines they produced, taking the risk of not producing harvests that would have no income.
During this period of crisis, Nicolas Caténa took over the reins of the family winery and concentrated on distributing the wines on the Argentinian market. In the early 1980s, Nicolas decided to copy California wines, the only ones capable of competing with the best French wines..
Convinced that Malbec would make it possible to make great Argentinian wines, it took Nicolas Catena 5 years on the Angélica vineyard, aged 85, to produce a Catena Malbec, the first vintage being 1994..
It was an unqualified success. "Bravo to Nicolás Catena", wrote the world-famous critic Robert Parker about this first vintage. Then the Wall Street Journal ranked Argentine Malbec number 1 in its very first article on Malbec. It would take another decade for Malbec to become a world-famous grape variety..
1997 was a phenomenal vintage for Cabernet Sauvignon, and Nicolás Catena Zapata began work on another top-class cuvée, a wine that would fulfil the dreams he had begun in the early 1980s. This wine, christened Nicolas Catena Zapata by Laura, is a blend of 95% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Malbec..
Tasted blind, this great wine was compared to the greatest wines in the world, such as Chateau Latour Haut Brion in Bordeaux, Salaia in Italy and Caymaus and Opus One in California..
A great wine was born !