Catena Zapata was founded in 1902 by Italian immigrant Nicola Catena. The flagship bottling of the winery, Nicolás Catena Zapata, is named after Nicola’s grandson who modernized the winery and developed additional high-altitude vineyards in the 1980s and 1990s. The wine was frist produced in 1997 and is a blend of pre-phylloxera, ungrafted Cabernet Sauvignon and Malbec, generally with a smaller amount of Cabernet Franc. In the words of wine critic Jancis Robinson MW, “Nicolás Catena Zapata is justly credited with putting Argentinean wines on the world map—by the best expedient of focusing entirely on quality.”