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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.
He was a Piemontese vine-grower who in 1943 moved to the Tuscan estate inherited by his Gherardesca wife.
(She was the sister of Piero Antinori’s mother.)
In those days, friends and family consumed the wine that they produced.
Or they sold it 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 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.
Sassicaia 1981 price at Arden Fine Wines
1981 was a very good vintage for Bolgheri, in some ways like 1975 and 1978, in which ripe fruit prevails.
There was regular autumn and winter weather, with late spring characterised by rainfall.
It was a hot summer with no rainfall but there was not a drought.
The harvest came a little early but with excellent phenolic and technical ripening.
The grapes were rich in colour, flavour and tannins.
Maceration lasted 15 days in 75-hectolitre stainless steel vats.
Ageing lasted 19 months in 65% French oak barrels (40% new and 60% first/second passage) and 35% Yugoslavian wood (50% new and 50% first/second passage).
Or would you like to compare it to other legendary years like 1985?
Finally, you can find the price of this Tenuta San Guido Sassicaia 1981 at Arden Fine Wines in London.
