We know wines from Argentina can be great, but will they age?

Bodega Catena Zapata in Mendoza, Argentina, celebrated its 120th anniversary last year.

Laura Catena travels the world to pour the latest releases of stylish chardonnays and robust cabernets and malbecs from her family’s winery in Mendoza, Argentina. An energetic ambassador and frequent visitor to Canada, the fourth-generation winemaker arrived with a different agenda this week: to show how her wines can age as well as treasured bottles from Bordeaux or Burgundy.

“I was once called a hypocrite for talking about the age-worthy nature of our wines without having older bottles to taste,” Catena explained Tuesday before a tasting in Toronto of rare wines brought from Bodega Catena Zapata that included a 1994 cabernet sauvignon, a 2000 malbec and a 2001 chardonnay.

Laura Catena joined her fa