Bolgheri Sassicaia DOC 2015 Tenuta San Guido

Sassicaia Doc is a ruby ​​red wine with purple reflections. Grapes Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Frenc produced in the San Guido estate in Bolgheri. Rich, elegant, majestic smell. Dry, full, robust and harmonious flavor with a good and elegant structure.“We believe that Sassicaia is one of the greatest wine creations of the century. It also happens to be just wonderful to drink. May it thrive through the new millennium” (Serena Sutcliffe MW & David Peppercorn MW).

Bolgheri Sassicaia Doc is a courageous wine that comes from the stones, produced in the vineyards of Tenuta San Guido immersed in the Mediterranean maquis of Castagneto Carducci among ancient olive trees and centuries-old oaks, in tombolos of sand created by the sea breeze and lerici and ash trees that shade the marsh (marsh ), up to the avenue of cypresses.

An ancient land, a natural park located between the fortress of Castiglioncello and the coast with dunes and marshes that extends into the heart of the Maremma, crossed by the long avenue of cypresses of Carducciana memory. An extraordinary and marvelous area where man with his art and traditions meets the great spectacle of nature in the name of a common well-being. An ecosystem based on a sustainable balance, on the traces of the past that looks to the future; a corridor between the sea and the hill; a feeling of peace and tranquillity.

Here, which Mario Incisa Marquis della Rocchetta first, and his son Nicolò later, they grafted French vines Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Frenc giving rise to a Bordeaux-style red wine which will become, in years, one of the best red wines in the world. “Well dressed and brilliant, bouquet dense and dignified in itself, of uncommon surly elegance … consistent backbone in the well-structured fabric."(Luigi Veronelli, Panorama, 1974). The meeting with the young and brilliant Giacomo Tachis will mark the real turning point and the great success and worldwide fame of this red wine. Giacomo Tachis, world-renowned winemaker and profound wine connoisseur, is universally known for having created the three most famous Super Tuscan wines in the world: Sassicaia, Tignanello and Solaia.

The vineyards are located at a altitude between 40 and 400 meters above sea level. The surrounding hills of Bibbona and Castagneto characterize the climate and the microclimate by protecting the grapes from the cold north-east winter winds and refreshing them in the hot summer months with the breeze that comes from the sea; while the surrounding woods, dense and uncontaminated, are an authentic natural lung.

Tenuta San Guido is the only company to have vineyards capable of claiming the Doc Bolgheri Sassicaia, a type born as a sub-area of ​​the Bolgheri DOC already in 1994 and converted to autonomous DOC in December 2013. The 2015 vintage was awarded by the prestigious magazine Wine Spectator as the best red wine in the world.