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.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
2017 was a slightly warmer vintage, and the 2017 Zaha Malbec shows a riper profile, fruit driven and floral. This wine always has a small percentage of Cabernet Franc and a little Petit Verdot from their vineyard in Altamira matured in a mixture of 225- and 500-liter oak barrels. There are notes of berries and spices; the oak is imperceptible, as they use mostly used barrels, with just a smoky/meaty note in the nose. It's quite harmonious, and there is no heat. It has 13.7% alcohol, and the tannins are fine-grained, the finish dry and long.
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Wine Spectator
A minerally style, featuring fresh-crushed red fruit and berry flavors, backed by lithe acidity. Flinty accents show midpalate, leading to a long and caressing finish supported by medium-grained tannins.
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.