Tenuta San Guido Bolgheri Sassicaia Doc 2020 Sassicaia D-Magnum
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Wine details
Size
3ltx1
Availability
1
Vintage
2020
Producer
Tenuta San Guido
Country
Italy
Region
Tuscany
About this wine
Sassicaia is the most renowned of the Super-Tuscan wines. The 100ha of vineyard at Tenuta San Guido make up just a fraction of the 2,500ha estate, more than half of which is wild woodland. The first vineyard, one hectare of Cabernet Sauvignon, was planted by Rocchetta’s Bordeaux-loving grandfather Mario Incisa in 1942 just under the great medieval fortress of Castiglioncello. The early vintages were too robust for Tuscans used to their native Sangiovese, so until 1967 they were drunk only within the family. The wine’s subsequent history is the stuff of legend – how in the early 1970s the Marchese’s cousin Piero Antinori and his consultant Giacomo Tachis gave the wines polish and found them an international market. The 1985 was awarded 100 points by Robert Parker, and Sassicaia is now considered one of the world’s greatest Cabernet blends, adored for its freshness and longevity.
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96
The Tenuta San Guido 2020 Bolgheri Sassicaia speaks to those who seek a more voluptuous, opulent and, ultimately, more accessible wine. This vintage is a precise reflection of Coastal Tuscany, as opposed to a more generic "Tuscan" wine from elsewhere in this large central Italian region. You taste the ripeness and soft fruit weight that comes from a coastal appellation with especially bright luminosity and warm Mediterranean offshore breezes. This wine is beautiful and compelling straight out of the gate, showing a lovely mix of dark fruit, oak spice, balanced freshness, textural richness, soft tannins and an expertly contained 14% alcohol content. The wine's immediate character is what distinguishes this vintage, and I wouldn't get too fussed by exaggerated cellar-aging ambitions. The wine awards sheer pleasure in its current form, with dazzling primary fruit and soaring intensity over the near and medium term.
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97
vn
97
The 2020 Sassicaia is a bold, rapturous wine. Dark, fleshy and expansive on the palate, the 2020 offers up scents of blackberry jam, gravel, spice, new leather, licorice and crème de cassis. Potent tannins are nearly buried by the sheer intensity of the fruit. Sassicaia is never a huge wine, the 2020 does seem to have an extra dimension of textural intensity. It's an intensity that is hugely appealing.