Catena Zapata, Malbec Nicasia other_regions_italy Although the wine feels sticky

Although the wine feels sticky and chewy in the mouth with an evidently mature quality of fruit

The complex

Here the nose is also fairly heavily reduced

Just a tad brutal

Catena Zapata, Malbec Nicasia other_regions_italy Although the wine feels stickyThe 2010 Catena Zapata Nicasia Vineyard is a single vineyard Malbec from their vines from Nicasia in Altamira (La Consulta) in the south of the Uco Valley, a chalk rich zone that is quickly gaining ground on the terroir map of Mendoza. The grapes were barrel fermented with 5% Cabernet Franc. The grapes were harvested at six different points in time, depending on the difference of soils in the vineyard. I see quite ripe fruit here, a round wine, with