Red · Mendoza · Argentina
Catena Zapata Nicolás Catena Zapata
Scored from 7,667 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Argentina (482 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Make sure to let this wine decant at least 20 minutes. I recommend with meats and hard cheeses (manchego with this wine was a dream come true).”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Catena Zapata Nicolás Catena Zapata is an Argentine red from Mendoza. At $80.67 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $60–120 band. The grape is Malbec.
The calibrated figure is built from 7,667 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 7,893 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 482 Argentine reds.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this bottle against every other wine those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — four stars from someone who hands out fives means something very different from four stars from someone who rarely goes above three. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a star average.
- Global percentile
- Where Catena Zapata Nicolás Catena Zapata lands against every wine we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — wines of the same type from the same country. A Chilean red is judged against Chilean reds, not against Champagne. Ranked against Red · Argentina (482 wines).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each wine keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 7,667.
