Sassicaia

You can find Sassicaia vintage red wines at Arden Fine Wines in London.

Sassicaia broke ground when the 1968 vintage came on the market in the early 1970s.

Marchese Mario Incisa della Rocchetta created Tenuta San Guido Sassicaia.

He was a Piemontese vine-grower who moved to the Tuscan estate inherited by his Gherardesca wife in 1943.

In those days, friends and family consumed the wine produced, or it was sold privately, in barrel and in certain years in bottle.

But the reputation, especially of the aged wine, grew.

In 1970, Mario’s son Nicolò managed to persuade his father to call in the Antinori cousins as professionals.

Since then, it has acquired a reputation for having achieved a number of “firsts.”

Experts generally consider it first among Italian wines.

It is half-true that it was the first “Super Tuscan”: the 1968 was contemporaneous with Enzo Morganti’s all-Sangiovese Vigorello.

And it certainly became the first barrique-aged wine of Italy.

Then it became the first great Italian cabernet.

And it became the first Italian wine – with the 1985 Tenuta San Guido Sassicaia – to receive 100 points from the influential US wine critic Robert Parker.

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