The winery is located in Algarrobo Grande in the department of Junín in the Mendoza region of Argentina. The roots of the family empire lie in the Italian region of Marche. Nicola Catena (*1880) was born there as the son of vineyard labourers and emigrated to Argentina in 1898. Here he planted his first vineyard with Malbec (Cot) in the province of Mendoza in 1902 and began producing wines for the local market. His son Domingo Catena (+1989) continued the work and expanded the estate, making the company the most successful and largest in Argentina and (alongside Peñaflor) one of the largest wine companies in the world.
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