Tenuta San Guido

Tuscany As a student in Pisa during the 1920's, the Marquis Mario Incisa della Rocchetta dreamed of creating a "noble" wine. Like most of Italian aristocracy at the time, his taste in wine ran strongly to fine Bordeaux. After settling with his wife, Clarice, into their Tuscan estate at Tenuta San Guido on the Mediterranean Coast, he experimented with several French grape varieties and concluded, “the bouquet I was looking for” was found in the Cabernet. A wine that had Cabernet Sauvignon as its primary component represented a radical shift from the traditional Tuscan and Piedmontese varietals of Sangiovese and Nebbiolo. The first vineyard was planted in the early 1940s with some French grafts of Cabernet Sauvignon purchased from Chateau Lafite. The Marquis’ use of Cabernet grapes and his implementation of the barriques aging process soon spread throughout Italy. Sassicaia was the first Italian wine to successfully establish itself abroad, and is almost universally recognized as the father of the new Italian wine family or simply the Super Tuscan Pioneer. Mario Incisa della Rocchetta’s planting is now considered the birthplace of Italian Cabernet. Today the estate is in the hands of The Marchese Nicolo Incisa Della Rocchetta.

	Tenuta San Guido Guidalberto 2004 Bin No. GUIDALB04 Price: £23.00 Guidalberto is the most recent wine from Tenuta San Guido, launched with the 2000 vintage. It is in fact the first new wine to be released since Sassicaia itself in 1968. The grapes (Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Sangiovese) come from vines which abut the Sassicaia vineyards and belong to a cousin of Nicolo's. The grapes are fermented seperately in stainless steel vats and then the resulting blend is aged in French and American oak barrels for 1 ..
View full details Quantity:

	Tenuta San Guido Sassicaia 2003 Bin No. SASSICAI03 Price: £1200 Sassicaia, a blend of old vine Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc, is today one of the most sought after fine wines in the world and has in recent years made history by becoming the first and only wine to be granted its own DOC. '...vintage after vintage, Sassicaia proves itself to be a wine of extraordinary finesse and exceptional quality, especially in its tannins'. - Gambero Rosso Editore. Please note that this wine is sold as a ca ..
View full details Quantity:

Displaying Results 1-2 of 2