The Winery Catena of Mendoza

Winery Catena
The winery offers 29 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
This estate is part of the Bodega Catena Zapata.
It is ranked in the top 520 of the estates of Mendoza.
It is located in Mendoza

The Winery Catena is one of the best wineries to follow in Mendoza.. It offers 29 wines for sale in of Mendoza to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Catena wines

Looking for the best Winery Catena wines in Mendoza among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Catena wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Catena wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Catena

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Catena

How Winery Catena wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of millet with gruyere cheese, saddle of lamb with herbs or stuffed peppers.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Catena

On the nose the red wine of Winery Catena. often reveals types of flavors of butterscotch, oak or oil and sometimes also flavors of fennel, non oak or earth. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Catena. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Catena

  • 2000With an average score of 4.22/5
  • 1999With an average score of 4.22/5
  • 2004With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.11/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.07/5
  • 2005With an average score of 4.06/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Catena.

  • Malbec
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Nebbiolo
  • Merlot
  • Shiraz/Syrah

Discovering the wine region of Mendoza

Mendoza is by far the largest wine region in Argentina. Located on a high-altitude plateau at the edge of the Andes Mountains, the province is responsible for roughly 70 percent of the country's annual wine production. The French Grape variety Malbec has its New World home in the vineyards of Mendoza, producing red wines of great concentration and intensity. The province Lies on the western edge of Argentina, across the Andes Mountains from Chile.

While the province is large (it covers a similar area to the state of New York), its viticultural land is clustered mainly in the northern Part, just South of Mendoza City. Here, the regions of Lujan de Cuyo, Maipu and the Uco Valley are home to some of the biggest names in Argentinian wine. Mendoza's winemaking history is nearly as Old as the colonial history of Argentina itself. The first vines were planted by priests of the Catholic Church's Jesuit order in the mid-16th Century, borrowing agricultural techniques from the Incas and Huarpes, who had occupied the land before them.

Malbec was introduced around this time by a French agronomist, Miguel Aimé Pouget. In the 1800s, Spanish and Italian immigrants flooded into Mendoza to escape the ravages of the Phylloxera louse that was devastating vineyards in Europe at the time. A boom in wine production came in 1885, when a railway line was completed between Mendoza and the country's capital city, Buenos Aires, providing a cheaper, easier way of sending wines out of the region. For most of the 20th Century, the Argentinean wine industry focused almost entirely on the domestic market, and it is only in the past 25 years that a push toward quality has led to the wines of Mendoza gracing restaurant lists the world over.

The top white wines of Winery Catena

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Catena

How Winery Catena wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of leeks with ham and béchamel sauce, hard-boiled eggs and gourmet muffins or nanie's diced ham quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Catena

On the nose the white wine of Winery Catena. often reveals types of flavors of butterscotch, passion fruit or oil and sometimes also flavors of banana, baked apple or yeast. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Catena. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Catena

  • 2019With an average score of 4.03/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.98/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.88/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.80/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Catena.

  • Chardonnay
  • Chenin Blanc
  • Sémillon
  • Torrontés

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

The top pink wines of Winery Catena

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Catena

How Winery Catena wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, spicy food or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of beef tongue with pickle sauce, chicken fajitas or vegetarian quiche with mushrooms and comté cheese.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Catena

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Catena. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Catena

  • 2019With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Catena.

  • Malbec

The word of the wine: Late harvest

A name historically used in Alsace, late harvest refers to grapes harvested during over-ripening for the production of sweet and syrupy wines.

The top sweet wines of Winery Catena

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Catena

How Winery Catena wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or sweet desserts such as recipes of tuna omelette, yakisoba (fried noodles) or tiramisu (original recipe).

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Winery Catena

On the nose the sweet wine of Winery Catena. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Catena

  • 2008With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2006With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2007With an average score of 3.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Catena.

  • Sémillon

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Catena

Planning a wine route in the of Mendoza? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Catena.

Discover the grape variety: Sémillon

Sémillon blanc is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. Note that this grape variety can also be used for the elaboration of eaux de vie. This variety of vine is characterized by large bunches of grapes, and grapes of large size. Sémillon Blanc can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica, Loire Valley, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Winery Catena and wines from the region

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Chardonnay

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Chardonnay, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Bourgogne ...

The Chablis vineyard and the transition to sustainable practices

On December 10, 2020, four Hong Kong personalities discussed Chablis wines on a live webinar: Yang LU, Master Sommelier and Official Bourgogne Wines Ambassador, Debra MEIBURG, Master of Wine, Ivy NG, Official Bourgogne Wines Ambassador and Rebecca LEUNG, wine expert. In this 5-minute clip, the speakers discuss organic wines and the movement towards more environmentally friendly practices. #Chablis #PureChablis ...

The Irancy appellation seen by Clotilde Davenne

Clotilde Davenne, from the eponymous estate, mentions the cherry as a main characteristic of the Irancy appellation. She tells us about the Pinot Noir variety which reveals, in its northern location of Bourgogne, lots of freshness and fruitiness that gives the appellation a very special place among the wines of the region. This video is taken from the “Rendez-vous avec les vins de Bourgogne” program (June 2020). Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​ Twitter: https: ...

The word of the wine: Late harvest

A name historically used in Alsace, late harvest refers to grapes harvested during over-ripening for the production of sweet and syrupy wines.