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18/20+
Weinwisser
96/100
The Wine Advocate
97/100
James Suckling
19/20
Matthew Jukes
96/100+
Tim Atkin
Catena Zapata
, Argentinien
2021 Nicolas Catena Zapata
Auslieferung im Frühjahr 2025!
Delivery in spring 2025!
A cool vintage, although not as much as 2016, with precision and nuance, floral aromatics, raspberry leaf, black cherry and brambled hedgerow fruit, with tobacco and chamomile flowers, smoky and intense. This vintage sees a new label for the first time since this wine was first released back in 1997, pointing to what makes it so different from many Argentinian Cab-Malbec blends (ungrafted pre-phylloxera vines, whole cluster vinification, massal selection programme leading to the diversity of their DNA). 50% new oak for ageing. Alejandro Vigil winemaker. Tasted twice.
96/100 Jane Anson
(Mendoza; 46% Cabernet Sauvignon; 44% Malbec; 10% Cabernet Franc; 13.5% alcohol). Lithe and limpid, very fluid and quite crystalline at first, but with chewy fine-grained but grippy tannins more evident as this unfurls over the palate. As that implies, this becomes more focussed and even tight and linear after a more sinuous and crystalline opening. Oxygen seems to reveal the structure more. Pixilated by the tannins. Another vin de garde, less accessible perhaps at this stage than previous vintages but imposing and impressive. Puissant.
95/100 Colin Hay; The Drinks Business
Delivery in spring 2025!
A cool vintage, although not as much as 2016, with precision and nuance, floral aromatics, raspberry leaf, black cherry and brambled hedgerow fruit, with tobacco and chamomile flowers, smoky and intense. This vintage sees a new label for the first time since this wine was first released back in 1997, pointing to what makes it so different from many Argentinian Cab-Malbec blends (ungrafted pre-phylloxera vines, whole cluster vinification, massal selection programme leading to the diversity of their DNA). 50% new oak for ageing. Alejandro Vigil winemaker. Tasted twice.
96/100 Jane Anson
(Mendoza; 46% Cabernet Sauvignon; 44% Malbec; 10% Cabernet Franc; 13.5% alcohol). Lithe and limpid, very fluid and quite crystalline at first, but with chewy fine-grained but grippy tannins more evident as this unfurls over the palate. As that implies, this becomes more focussed and even tight and linear after a more sinuous and crystalline opening. Oxygen seems to reveal the structure more. Pixilated by the tannins. Another vin de garde, less accessible perhaps at this stage than previous vintages but imposing and impressive. Puissant.
95/100 Colin Hay; The Drinks Business
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Article Number 806549
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Quantity 0,75 l
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Packaging Bottle
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Price Per Litre € 113,60
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Type Cuvee
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Origin Argentinien / Valle de Uco / Mendoza
