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1985 Tenuta San Guido Sassicaia

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RATINGS

100Robert M. Parker Jr.

...secondary aromas of cedar and truffles to go along with its intense cassis, black-raspberry, blackberry, tarry, toasty personality. Exceptionally dense, concentrated, and full-bodied, this wine possesses layers of concentrated fruit...

99Wine Spectator

Oozes rich and ripe fruit and sweet wood character, but doesn't taste overripe. Loaded with cassis and mineral flavors backed by tar and spice.

19Jancis Robinson

...Very lush and intense and deep. Long. Great balance and more finesse...

***/*Michael Broadbent

...youthful fruit, developed an agtreeable 'biscuity' scent; dry, good flavour, stylish finish...

REGION

Italy, Tuscany, Bolgheri-Sassicaia

Bolgheri is a tiny village just inland from the western Tuscan coast with a storybook renaissance castle but no train station. To wine enthusiasts, however, Bolgheri is Italy’s most exciting wine region, and the Bolgheri Sassicaia DOC is particularly noteworthy. It was created in 1994 explicitly for Tenuta San Guido’s highly successful Sassicaia Super Tuscan. Sassicaia, first commercially released in 1968, is considered the first Super Tuscan and it remains a highly prestigious Cabernet Sauvignon/Merlot blend. Bolgheri is the cultural heart of the Maremma, the coastal stretch of Tuscany. Marchese Incisa della Rocchetta planted Bordeaux varietals at Tenuta San Guido in the 1940s, though it took him more than 20 years to win acclaim for his Bordeaux-style blends. By the late 1970s the family was using French oak barriques in the production of Sassicaia, which is now regularly described as one of the world’s finest wines.

VINTAGE

1985 Tenuta San Guido Sassicaia

When Robert Parker tasted this in 1992 it became the first Italian wine ever to earn a perfect score from him. When Wine Advocate tasted it again in 2016, it once again earned 100 pts.