The Winery Catena of Mendoza

Winery Catena
The winery offers 36 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
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 36 wines for sale in of Mendoza to come and discover on site or to buy online.

The Catena Zapata wine estate, located in Mendoza, Argentina, is one of the most esteemed vineyards in this flourishing wine region. Rooted in the foothills of the majestic Andes, the estate sprawls across more than 1500 hectares of land. The estate was founded in 1902 by Nicola Catena, an Italian immigrant who had a vision of producing superior quality wine in Argentina. Today, nearing its fourth century of existence, the Catena family continues to cultivate their winemaking heritage with the same initial passion and determination. The Catena Zapata vineyard, bathed in the sunshine of Mendoza's climate and enriched by the mineral-rich Argentinian soil, is the cradle of some of the region's most exquisite wines. The estate is primarily known for its Malbec, an opulent red wine that eloquently expresses the richness of this unique terroir. Besides Malbec, the estate also produces other remarkable wines such as Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay. Catena Zapata estate is particularly appreciated for its consistent way of producing wines that beautifully balance power and finesse. The extreme climate, high altitude, and diverse soils of the estate provide ideal conditions for viticulture. These factors, coupled with meticulous attention to detail during winemaking, give rise to wines with pronounced aromas, fresh fruit notes, and well-integrated tannins. The Catena family's unwavering commitment to innovation and quality has made the estate a leader in the Argentine wine industry, respected worldwide. The wines produced here are, without reservation, worthy representatives of this extraordinary wine region.

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 pork such as recipes of harira de mamie (moroccan soup), seven o'clock leg of lamb or pizza cone.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Catena

On the nose the red wine of Winery Catena. often reveals types of flavors of butterscotch, iron or cream and sometimes also flavors of cherry, oaky or tropical. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Catena. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Catena

  • 1999With an average score of 4.23/5
  • 2000With an average score of 4.21/5
  • 2004With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2021With an average score of 4.08/5
  • 2020With an average score of 4.07/5

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, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of flemish carbonnade, summer tuna quiche or chicken liver cake.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Catena

On the nose the white wine of Winery Catena. often reveals types of flavors of butterscotch, pineapple or cream and sometimes also flavors of grapefruit, oaky or tropical. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Catena. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Catena

  • 2023With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.98/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.95/5
  • 2022With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2020With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.90/5

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 chili con carne, mutton stew with potatoes and garlic or fusillis natalias.

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
  • 0With 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: Thick

Said of a heavy, pasty wine lacking in finesse.

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, goat cheese and mustard pie, chicken chop suey or the coughing cat's apple crumble.

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
  • 0With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 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: Chenin blanc

It most certainly originates from the Anjou region and is registered in the official catalogue of wine grape varieties on the A1 list. It can also be found in South Africa, Australia, Argentina, Chile, the United States (California), New Zealand, etc. It is said to be a descendant of Savagnin and to have sauvignonasse as its second parent (Jean-Michel Boursiquot 2019). On the other hand, Chenin blanc is the half-brother of verdelho and sauvignon blanc and is the father of colombard.

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: 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.

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