Red Still Wine | Argentina | Mendoza | 75cl
£149.95
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£899.70
£854.72 case
ABV: 13.5%
Size: 75cl
Closure Type: Cork
Country: Argentina
Region: Mendoza
Wine Style: Full Bodied
Grape: Malbec
THE WINE ADVOCATE Rating 100
Drink Date 2020 - 2036 - '.....This has good ripeness and sharp acidity, making it powerful but extremely fresh, with a backbone of acidity that lifts the wine up and makes it extremely long and persistent. In fact, the wine blows me away with an unusual combination of power and elegance; it shows detailed and nuanced, with subtle aromas of violets, spices, tobacco and wet chalk. It has a velvety texture with ultra refined, fine-grained tannins. It is precise in the acidity and on the palate, with the textbook chalky tannins and a sapid, almost salty finish. This is serious, austere, mineral, long, compact, harmonious and concentrated, yet it feels light and has that somewhat contradictory powerful elegance. This has to be the best wine ever produced at Catena. I'd love to have a time machine and taste this wine in 20 years' time.....' - Luis Gutiérrez