2008 Bodega Catena Zapata Malbec Catena Alta

Community Tasting Notes (27) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  7/30/2021 - kfrench150 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Decanted for about an hour. Lots of chunky sediment. Very dark, young looking magenta purple in colour. Barely transparent. Lovely, lifted nose, almost floral, but loaded with fresh, ripe black and red fruit, graphite, black suede and pencil shavings. More air brings out some cocoa powder and black licorice as well. Full bodied, gobs of sweet, ripe fruit, high glycerine, abundant yet mellow tannins and nice acid on the finish to balance everything out. The flavours are all in the dark pallet and include blackberry, black plum and especially black currant pastille. Also layers of fennel, roasted herbs, light tar and chalk. Excellent!

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  7/17/2021 - lewisrise wrote: 91 Points

  The wine is deep purple with medium intensity fully developed aromas of Violet, blackberry, black Plum, bramble, blueberry, cloves, nutmeg, tar, mushroom, and meaty. This is a dry wine with high alcohol and medium + acidity medium + tannins. This is a medium plus body wine with medium intensity flavors of blackberry, ramble, blueberry, black plum, Violet, cloves, nutmeg, charred wood, tar, mushroom, tobacco, meat. The wine has a medium finish and is A very good wine that should be drunk now and not suitable for further aging.

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  9/26/2018 - JohnSh wrote: 88 Points

  This was better on the second night. Still not very complex, but a solid malbec with a nice texture and appropriate tannins and overall balance (B+).

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  8/2/2018 - Topper wrote: 89 Points

  Not much different from a year ago. Big and still some rough tannins. Fairly one-dimensional but holds up well to steak

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  1/1/2018 - iamandyc Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Drank very well and developed a bit more structure with a 3 hour slow ox. It has the typical rich fruit of other vintages of this wine. Finish is fairly long for a malbec. Not that complex however.

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