Guidalberto, Toscana, Tenuta San Guido 2023
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Guidalberto, Toscana, Tenuta San Guido 2023 En Primeur - Case of 6
£276.00
75cl ALC 13.5%
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"Guidalberto 2023 requires a little teasing from the glass. Closed and mineral, it unfurls with blackberry, blackcurrant, sweet cherry, spice, and earth. It offers a real brooding character, and with time, hints of leather and tobacco contrast with the succulent ripe fruit. But it's the tannins and grip on the palate that really sets this apart: whilst the fruit is plush and ripe, it has a core that's lithe and mineral: the hallmark Tenuta San Guido elegance. Carlo Paoli has crafted a particularly nuanced and striking Guidalberto this vintage. Finishing long and radiant, we are left assured that Guidalberto has never been so close in quality to Sassicaia, all whilst expressing its own terroir and character. A joy to taste now, but give this 3-5 years in the cellar to really come together." Armit Wines

£276.00
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Spring/Summer 2025

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Details

Italy, Italy, Tuscany

Still Red

60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot

Medium-bodied

Drink or Keep

2023

Pasta, Bolognese

13.5%

75cl

Sassicaia - Tenuta San Guido

Sassicaia - Tenuta San Guido

Sassicaia - Tenuta San Guido

The Marchese Mario Incisa della Rocchetta produces wines at Tenuta San Guido, just inland from Bolgheri on the Tyrrhenian coast and has a very fine reputation. The Tenuta San Guido estate comprises the Sassicaia winery and vineyards, the only Italian DOC within a single estate, the Razza Dormello-Olgiata thoroughbred stud farm and the Padule di Bolgheri bird sanctuary.

The Sassicaia (‘place of many stones’) vineyards are planted in the hills at up to 350m above sea level, with a band rich in rocks and clay between 100 – 300m. The Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc fruit is hand-harvested, and following vinification the unfinished wine spends 24 months aging in French oak barriques followed by a few months in bottle prior to release. Initially made by the Mario Incisa della Rocchetta for the family’s private cellar, he was persuaded by family and friends to commercially release the wine, and the first public release of Sassicaia was in 1968. With help from Piero Antinori`s winemaker, Giacomo Tachis, viticulture and winemaking were further developed over the following years, and today Sassicaia enjoys an almost legendary status in the wine world. Sassicaia seems to do especially well in vintages that are less successful for the rest of Tuscany, and today it is one of the world’s finest expressions of Cabernet. It boasts extraordinary complexity, with texture, power, structure, finesse and longevity. Nicolò Incisa della Rocchetta (pictured) is the president of Tenuta San Guido.

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