Bodega Catena Zapata Nicolás Catena Zapata

Red
Argentina
Mendoza
Cabernet Sauvignon
Malbec

Tracked vintages: 25
Community notes: 822
Merchant offers: 226

What we know about this wine

Critics: 96/ 1002022 vintage
Real drinkers: 91/ 100822 notes, every vintage
Market price: £58per 75 cl2021 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2024
Drinking window: 2024–2040drinking2021 · nearest vintage with a window

Flavour and structure

What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.

Structure from 1,160 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Argentinian Cabernet Sauvignon - Malbec.

Body4.3 / 5: LightFull
Acidity3.1 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin3.2 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.8 / 5: DrySweet

Oak · oak, vanilla, chocolate, tobacco, cedar
Black fruit · blackberry, plum, black fruit, blackcurrant, cassis
Earth · leather, smoke, earthy, minerals, graphite
Spice · pepper, licorice, mint, cinnamon, eucalyptus
Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, strawberry, cranberry
Floral · violet, lavender, perfume, lilac, acacia

Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.

Realised in-bond trades£37–£108Shop asks£86–£86GBP per 75 cl · 15 priced vintages

2001One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2021

Vintages

Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.

Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
Drinkinginside its stated window
Past its windowits window has closed
Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone

Best scored: 2020; 97 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2020; drinking, window 2023–2042
Lowest price: 2016; £37 per 75 cl

Price by vintage

One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.

Solid: a realised in-bond tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid

Nicolás Catena Zapata monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure. 8 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them

View as a table

Nicolás Catena Zapata monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2021	£58	96.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2024
2019	£49	95.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2018	£41	96.4	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2024
2017	£54	95.6	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2024
2016	£37	96.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2015	£48	94.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2024
2013	£86	95	No	per 75cl, from a 6000 ml shop ask, September 2026
2011	£42	92.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2024
2010	£84	94	Yes	per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, August 2023
2009	£108	93.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2022
2008	£61	93.4	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2018
2005	£81	93.6	Yes	per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, September 2024
2004	£97	94.6	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3000 ml in-bond trade, November 2024
2003	£86	93	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, July 2022
2001	£83	92.7	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2021

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