Description

Red Wine: 2020 | Catena Zapata | Adrianna Vineyard Fortuna Terrae Malbec

This is an incredibly refined Malbec that typically displays wonderful aromatic intensity, bright acidity and naturally harmonious tannins.

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Producer: Catena Zapata

Ratings: WA | 98 JS | 98

Vintage: 2020

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13.5%

Varietal: Malbec

Country/Region: Argentina, Mendoza

This is an incredibly refined Malbec that typically displays wonderful aromatic intensity, bright acidity and naturally harmonious tannins.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The 2020 Adrianna Vineyard Fortuna Terrae shows exceptionally well. It’s still young and juicy with some baby fat that should get rendered with some more time in bottle. It’s a little lighter, and the tannins gave it grip and a chalky limestone sensation. But the wine is very expressive, with purity, clean and precise and not showing any signs of coming from a warmer year like 2020. It finishes with the telltale violets from the great Malbec grape coated by chalky minerality.

• James Suckling: Blackberries, dark plums, dried earth, tar, paprika, lavender and bark on the nose. Medium-bodied, dark fruited and cool with very fine, velvety tannins. So supple, youthful and perfumed with lovely purity of fruit. Long, silky finish.

Producer Information

Bodega Catena Zapata is one of Argentina’s high altitude Malbec pioneers. The Catena family began making wine in Mendoza in 1902. Nicolas Catena, third generation family vintner, was one of the first to see the potential of Mendoza’s mountain vineyards for producing high quality Malbec. In 1994, he became the first Argentine to exprot a world-class bottling of Malbec under the Catena label. Nicolas is joined by his daughter, Dr. Laura Catena, in their relentless pursuit of world-class quality from the family’s high altitude vineyards. Laura has done extensive work in introducing Malbec and other varietal plant selections, soil and climate analysis, and sustainable practices throughout Mendoza. Head winemaker, Alejandro Vigil, has been at Catena Zapata since 2002 and works with Laura and Nicolas to make wines that express the family’s vineyards and palate.