Winemaker Notes
ZaHa means "Heart" in Mendoza's native Huarpe language. The 90% Malbec fruit is co-fermented with small amounts of 8% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot for additional complexity and concentration. ZaHa – the heart of Paraje Altamira.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2010 ZaHa contains a bit of co-fermented Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot in its blend, with 12 months of aging in 50% new French oak. It is purple in color with a captivating bouquet of wood smoke, underbrush, lavender, spice box, black cherry, and blackberry. This sets the stage for a dense, round, plush, structured wine with a suave personality. Notes of pepper, truffle, and coffee emerge in the glass, leading to a lengthy, fruit-filled finish. Give it 2-3 years of additional cellaring and drink it from 2014 to 2025.
Most distinguished and celebrated from Argentina’s Mendoza, Malbec has seen runaway success since the early 2000s. Mendoza’s agreeable, continental climate with hot, dry summers and cold snowy winters allows the perfect conditions for growing outstanding Malbec. This grape is easy to like for its lusty, deep flavors and aromas of blackberry, plum, red cherry, autumn spice and tilled earth. It’s easy to find delicious, fruit-driven, affordable everyday examples and in prices beyond, quite exceptional ones with dense, supple textures that make them capable of aging.
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