The Catena family is well-known as one of the pioneers of Argentine wine, discovering higher areas in the foothills of the Andes Mountains in the early 1990s where Malbec would excel. Catena was also able to import the best selections of Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay into Argentina from France and the United States. In 1995, Laura Catena founded the Catena Institute of Wine to select 135 plants with different qualities from an old Catena family vineyard called the Angelica Vineyard plante...
