The Winery Catena of Mendoza

Winery Catena - Malbec
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 improved horse steak, shoulder of lamb stuffed with cognac or butter chicken or chicken makkhani (india).

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
  • 2019With an average score of 4.16/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.15/5
  • 2004With an average score of 4.14/5
  • 2005With an average score of 4.11/5

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 bare-assed cockerel (ardennes), half-cooked bluefin tuna or zucchini 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: 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.

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 picadillo, grilled pork ribs with barbecue sauce or savoy tomme and spinach pie.

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: Hard

A harsh, biting wine, characterized by an excess of tannins and acidity. It is often said of young wines that lack smoothness.

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 cod "bacalhau a gomes de sa, blanquette of the sea or yoghurt cake.

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: Malbec

Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.

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: 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.

News about Winery Catena and wines from the region

New Château Latour 2010 stocks released onto market

New stocks of Château Latour 2010 were released from the Pauillac-based First Growth’s cellars on 13 September. Latour 2010 is regarded as one of the best Bordeaux wines of the 21st century so far, and has received two 100-point Decanter scores in the past three years. It’s also more expensive than many other Latour vintages, but analyst group Wine Lister said it expected buyers to show interest. ‘There is no doubt that this release will see demand, especially for merchants rel ...

Decanter bookmarks: Things to read, watch and listen to for wine lovers

Looking for inspiration? Here are the best things to read, watch and listen to for wine lovers. We’ve picked out some of the best wine-related books, TV shows and podcasts for your enjoyment! Wine books: Malbec Mon Amour – Laura Catena and Alejandro Vigil Written by fourth-generation vintner Dr Laura Catena and winemaker Alejandro Vigil, this illustrated coffee-table book is a love song to the Malbec grape in Argentina. Combining history and storytelling with viticultural notes – including ...

DBR Lafite CEO Jean-Guillaume Prats to step down

Jean-Guillaume Prats is set to leave the business around four years after being appointed CEO and president of Domaines Barons de Rothschild (DBR Lafite). A DBR Lafite spokesperson said Prats would leave before the end of the year, in order to ‘devote himself to his family business and to consulting’. Group chairwoman Saskia de Rothschild will take over the executive management of DBR Lafite as of December. Prats’ arrival at DBR Lafite was announced in November 2017 as part of a leadership ...

The word of the wine: Hard

A harsh, biting wine, characterized by an excess of tannins and acidity. It is often said of young wines that lack smoothness.