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Catena Zapata, Adrianna Vineyard Mundus Bacillus Terrae, 2021

Catena Zapata, Adrianna Vineyard Mundus Bacillus Terrae, 2021

Catena Zapata | Mendoza, Argentina | 75cl
  • Red Still
  • Malbec
  • Organic
Regular price £468.00
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Est. delivery in December, 2024

The Catena Zapata Adrianna Vineyard Mundus Bacillus Terrae 2021 is a remarkable expression of Argentine Malbec from the Adrianna Vineyard, one of the most prestigious vineyards in Mendoza's Uco Valley.

The Adrianna Vineyard is located at a high altitude of 1,500 meters in the Uco Valley. Known as the “Grand Cru of South America,” this vineyard produces wines that are both powerful and elegant due to the unique combination of limestone-rich soils and cool climate conditions.

Drinking window: 2025 - 2042

What the critics say:

100/100Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux

"Violets and herb-strewn rose petals curl out of the glass, along with cola, mint, flint, slate, hawthorn, blueberry and black cherry fruit. One of the things that I love about this wine is how it rewrites the perception of Argentinian Malbec that is is known for its velvety sweet and smooth flavours, whereas this puts the texture and the grip back to its heart, along with a vivid brightness of fruit. There is chocolate here, but it is cocoa bean, focused and gripping and full of joy. Alejandro Vigil winemaker. Tasted twice. "

99/100James Suckling

"A complex yet super discreet nose with hints of wet stone, wet earth, peppercorn and graphite to the red and blue fruits. An elegant expression but this has an intense mid-palate with tight but silky tannins. Long, complex and soft-spoken. Nothing conspicuous here. Impeccable interplay between concentration and purity. Will age really well. Drinkable now but better from 2025."

98+/100Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate

"The 2021 Adrianna Vineyard Mundus Bacillus Terrae comes from 1.4 hectares within the Adrianna vineyard in Gualtallary, planted in 1992 at 1,390 meters above sea level. It's from a cooler year in Mendoza with some frost that delivered low yields and wines of good concentration and ripeness. It has 13.9% alcohol and notable acidity (7.3 grams of tartaric acid per liter of wine). Seventy-five percent of the volume started fermenting in concrete with 50% full clusters and the rest without stems or skins, only juice, in oak foudres and aged in oak barrels for 15 to 18 months. This is very straight, elegant and balanced, following the path toward elegance that started in 2019. The wine closed down in the glass and slowly unfurled layers of complexity. It's textured, with very fine-grained tannins and great balance, a very subtle note of spices and a very elegant mouthfeel. This wine has been getting better and better in the last few years, getting closer to the more austere profile of the River bottling from Adrianna vineyard (which is still a little more austere than this in the great 2021 vintage). 5,400 bottles produced. It was bottled in November 2022."

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