Tenuta San Guido
The name of a field (part of Castagneto Carducci ) on the Tuscan Mediterranean coast became famous in the vicinity of the town of Bolgheri ( Maremma Livornese called ) in the 80s of the 20th century for a red wine that revolutionized Italian viticulture.
As a French red wines were scarce during the Second World War in Italy, Marchese Mario Incisa della Rocchetta planted in 1944 in Bolgheri, about ten kilometers from the coast, on a rocky hillside below the castle Castiglioncello vines of French varieties Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc to. The wine was given the name of a location, the (Italian sassi ) by the many rocks in the soil was named " Sassicaia ".
The wine was initially intended exclusively for private use. It was only at the insistence of his son and his nephew Nicolò Marchese Piero Antinori out was convinced Incisa della Rocchetta from a marketing opportunity. So in the early seventies, the first bottles came with the year 1968 in the trade. The slow triumph of the atypical for Italy at that time, seal up massive red wine had begun. He could be classified many years only as Vino da Tavola ( table wine ) because the French grape varieties in Italy for quality wines (DOC) were not allowed. Due to his success, he soon found, however, numerous imitators, and is therefore called next to the top wine of the Marchese Piero Antinori, Tignanello, as the father of the Super Tuscans.
The origin of the wine Sassicaia marketing of 1968 is an absolute rarity nowadays. Very well known and classified with full 100 Parker points long was the Sassicaia of the vintage 1985, one in Italy for red wines very good year. However, the " Sassi 85 " is now often taken disadvantageous because the quality of corking a fairly often corked just this extremely expensive wine (as of 2013: 1,600 € / bottle) bestowed. The wine built in the past ten years down considerably. Robert Parker rated this wine again with 97 points.
Only in 1994, a Rosso was approved in the DOC Bolgheri, to which this wine made decisive contributions. Sassicaia has its own sub-area Bolghieri Sassicaia even within this DOC and is the only wine in Italy with its own DOC. Since the 80s, the estate of Marchese Nicolò Incisa della Rocchetta is performed.