Tenuta San Guido is in Maremma, on the Tuscan coast. The estate covers 2,500 hectares and runs 13 km from the hills down to the sea. Mario Incisa della Rocchetta planted Cabernet Sauvignon there in the early 1940s, and those vines became the base of Sassicaia. For years the wine was kept for family and friends, from 1945 to 1967.
Sassicaia has since become the estate's own appellation. In 2013 it was granted Bolgheri Sassicaia DOC. In a 1978 blind tasting of 33 wines in London, organised by Hugh Johnson for Decanter, the 1972 placed first.
There are three wines. Sassicaia is joined by Guidalberto, first made in 2000, and Le Difese, first made in 2002. Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Merlot are the main grapes, and Le Difese also includes Sangiovese. Harvest is by hand, no artificial yeasts are used, and fertilisation is exclusively organic.
Not tasted yet
I haven't reviewed a wine from Tenuta San Guido yet. They're on my Top 100 list, which is built from awards.