Laura Catena, 37, isn’t justa practicing emergency-room physician with de-grees from Harvard andStanford; she’s also the

export manager and a piv-otal player at Catena

Zapata. She somehow findsthe time to make wines

under her own label, calledLuca, using formerly un-tapped vineyard sites to

produce some ofArgentina’s top artisanalwines. These include the

Luca Pinot Noir, made fromgrapes grown in a new

vineyard that’s dizzying3,710 feet up in the Andes.

Laura Catenaargentine ambassador ARGENTINA

Food & WineOctober 2005