Sassicaia

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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.

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

(Interestingly, she was the sister of Piero Antinori’s mother.)

During those days, friends and family consumed the wine that they produced.

Alternatively, they sold it privately, in barrel and, in certain years, in bottle.

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

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

As a result, it has acquired a reputation for having achieved a number of “firsts.”

Ultimately, experts generally consider it first among Italian wines.

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

Sassicaia certainly became the first barrique-aged wine of Italy.

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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