2005 Catena Zapata "Catena Alta" Cabernet Sauvignon Mendoza 13.5%
Ripe plum and vanillin aromas. Tannic, fairly hot for 13.5%, but with surprisingly keen acidity, balanced by sweet fruit. Tastes like high quality grapes not excessively supermatured. Silky and elegant, but relatively one dimensional. Makes me think Eurotrash, double-breasted blazers and scarfs, aristocratic, charming and shallow. But perhaps I deride for increasingly ideological reasons.
Can we still believe that catena have elegant wines?