Deeper Into the Subject

To mark the Catena Institute of Wine’s 30th anniversary, we celebrated with the community that has accompanied our journey: scientists, colleagues, journalists, institutions, and local collaborators. It was a moment to honor three decades of research, shared learning, and commitment to preserving the nature and culture of Argentine wine.

Argentina is unique in the genetic diversity preserved in much of its vine material. With climate change and disease posing increasing threats worldwide, Catena Zapata winery is asking what lessons can be learned from massal selection to protect vineyards around the world.

In Mendoza, the climate conversation is moving to the vineyard. Forbes highlights how Laura Catena and the Catena Institute of Wine are bringing science, terroir, and collaboration into the realities growers face under climate change.

This session offers a broad overview of the Criolla varieties, their cultural and viticultural significance. Explore how these resilient old vines contribute to sustainability and climate adaptation.

Dr. Laura Catena sits down with experts to talk about terroir and explore in depth the impact of climate and soil on wine. Featuring: Fernando Buscema, Dr. Gregory Jones, Dr. Benjamin Bois, Dr. Roy Urvieta, Jane Anson, Dr. Kees Van Leeuwen, and Dr. Patricia Piccoli

In November 2024, the CIW hosted the 15th International Terroir Congress in Mendoza, Argentina. Here you can find a summary of the sessions conducted by Dr. Cristina Lazcano, Dr. Benjamin Bois, Dr. Philippe Gallusci, Dr. Cornelis Van Leeuwen, Dr. Luciano Calderón, and our own CIW experts.

This Climate Talk brought together winemakers across various wine regions in the world, who shared how they are using technology and nature to adapt to and mitigate climate change across the different stages of the wine value chain.

El vino es una bebida con miles de años de historia, que casi todos conocemos y hemos probado. Pero no son tantos los que realmente saben de vinos: reconocerlos, distinguir uno bueno de uno malo, descubrir qué notas tienen y por qué. Y son menos todavía los que saben hacer buenos vinos.

Living Vineyards’ Mission is to empower winegrowers worldwide to become leaders in ecosystem restoration. Here, we present our inititative "Catenat 2030" a reforestarion of proyect of 5000 native species of trees in all our vineyards.

Laura Catena, a dedicated advocate for viticultural heritage and Tim Atkin MW discuss the challenges and rewards of Argentina’s old vine Malbec. Laura is leading projects to preserve and amplify its genetic material though new vineyards planted from old vine material.

Argentina is thought to be home to the greatest concentration of massale old vines in the world representing a sort of “Galapagos island” of vine genetic diversity.

Argentina, holds a remarkable reservoir of genetic material. Considering the severe viticultural loss caused by the phylloxera crisis in Europe, Argentina emerges as a 'Galapagos Island' of sorts for Malbec.

The Adrianna Vineyard is located in the Tupungato department of the Uco Valley, Gualtallary. The combination of singular climatic conditions, carefully sought-after plants, and great soil diversity makes this vineyard unique, and our wish is for it to become recognized as the most studied vineyard in the world.

During the 11th International Cool Climate Wine Symposium (ICCWS) that took place in Christchurch New Zealand, viticulture specialist Jenifer Cugat presented an overview of the research of the Catena Institute on different topics such as: high altitude viticutlure, terroir & soil studies, genetic heritage, protecting historic Malbec massale selections and studying wine ageability