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2004 Catena Zapata, Bodegas Nicolas Catena Zapata

Proprietary Blend: 750ml

$99.99

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points awarded:
ST 93 WA 98 WS 92

98 points,

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, December 2007

Catena Zapata's flagship is the Nicolas Catena Zapata, a Cabernet Sauvignon-Malbec blend. The 2004 Nicolas Catena Zapata is composed of 72% Cabernet Sauvignon and 28% Malbec. It spent 18 months in 100% new French oak. A saturated black purple in color, it has an aristocratic perfume of pain grille, mineral, espresso, saddle leather, cassis, black currant, and black raspberry. Opulently textured, complex, ripe, and sweet on the palate, it maintains a sense of elegance as well as power. It demands 10-15 years of further cellaring and should still be providing pleasure at age 50. It strikes me as being Argentina's equivalent of a great vintage of Lafite-Rothschild.


93 points,

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, February 2008

Good bright, deep ruby. Superripe aromas of blackberry, minerals, mocha, licorice, musky chocolate and sexy oak. Then almost porty on the palate but with surprisingly penetrating and layered flavors of blackberry, cassis and dark chocolate and a high-toned character that lifts the fruit. I wanted more subtlety and floral character, but this is very young and in need of bottle aging. And there's no arguing with the extraordinary layered density of this superripe malbec. The tannic finish, with its complex notes of chocolate, leather and herbs, shows superb lift.


92 points,

Wine Spectator, June 2008

Rich and showy, with lots of licorice snap, plum sauce, graphite, boysenberry and milk chocolate notes all carried by rich, velvety tannins. The long, fleshy finish is very accessible. Cabernet Sauvignon and Malbec. Drink now through 2011. 990 cases imported.


98 points,

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, December 2007

Catena Zapata's flagship is the Nicolas Catena Zapata, a Cabernet Sauvignon-Malbec blend. The 2004 Nicolas Catena Zapata is composed of 72% Cabernet Sauvignon and 28% Malbec. It spent 18 months in 100% new French oak. A saturated black purple in color, it has an aristocratic perfume of pain grille, mineral, espresso, saddle leather, cassis, black currant, and black raspberry. Opulently textured, complex, ripe, and sweet on the palate, it maintains a sense of elegance as well as power. It demands 10-15 years of further cellaring and should still be providing pleasure at age 50. It strikes me as being Argentina's equivalent of a great vintage of Lafite-Rothschild.


93 points,

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, February 2008

Good bright, deep ruby. Superripe aromas of blackberry, minerals, mocha, licorice, musky chocolate and sexy oak. Then almost porty on the palate but with surprisingly penetrating and layered flavors of blackberry, cassis and dark chocolate and a high-toned character that lifts the fruit. I wanted more subtlety and floral character, but this is very young and in need of bottle aging. And there's no arguing with the extraordinary layered density of this superripe malbec. The tannic finish, with its complex notes of chocolate, leather and herbs, shows superb lift.


92 points,

Wine Spectator, June 2008

Rich and showy, with lots of licorice snap, plum sauce, graphite, boysenberry and milk chocolate notes all carried by rich, velvety tannins. The long, fleshy finish is very accessible. Cabernet Sauvignon and Malbec. Drink now through 2011. 990 cases imported.


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