Sassicaia Wine

Sassicaia is a wine made by Tenuta San Guido, a winery that focuses heavily on the balance between man and nature. Tenuta San Guido has a very long tradition and an ethical message that has been handed down from generation to generation. With the estate being used for winemaking and farming, the producers have a very sustainable outlook on wine creation, aiming for unlimited respect for nature in all of its forms. Sassicaia wine has collected important awards in 1985 and 2016, and it was also awarded 100/100 by American wine critic Robert Parker, and it was also judged the best wine in the world in 2018 by Wine Spectator.

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Tenuta San Guido offers only three wines, with all of them based on different expressions of the same territory. These wines are Sassicaia, Guidalberto and Le Difese. We will have a look at these wines and what makes them so unique.

The DOC Bolgheri Sassicaia is a property that stretches over 2,500 hectares, an area that is unique in terms of its soil, climate and exposure that deserves its own appellation. The 1968 vintage saw the first creation of Sassicaia, a wine named after the stony soil from which it comes. It is a courageous wine that broke away from the standard way of Tuscan Wine.

Winning multiple prestigious awards, Sassicaia could be one of the greatest wine creations of the century, with the wine being produced almost yearly from 1968 to 2020, all featuring slightly different characteristics due to weather conditions of the year.

With the other two wines introduced in 2000 and 2002, the Guidalberto and Le Difese are both impressive wines that have different characteristics compared to the Sassicaia.

Sassicaia Heritage

Marchese Mario Incisa Della Rocchetta inherited the 7,500-acre Tenuta San Guido in Bolgheri in the 1940s. Bolgheri had no history of commercial winemaking and was mainly producing fruit. Incisa della Rocchetta sourced some Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon vines in Pisa and planted a small vineyard on the property.

After the first wines were created in 1948, they were not well received at first, putting Incisa off winemaking; however, in the early 1960s, upon re-tasting older bottles, Incisa’s wine industry friends became excited by the possibility and potential of the wines grown on the property. After this reignited his interest, he created the Sassicaia vineyard in a place with gravel stones. The name Sassicia translates to “the place of many stones”.

This wine went on to become one of the highest-rated wines at the time, beating 33 others in a tasting competition conducted by Hugh Johnson, who was a world-leading wine critic in the late 1970s.