Bolgheri Sassicaia DOC is a red wine, dry, based on Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, produced within a single company, Tenuta San Guido in the town of Castegneto Carducci.
Count Guido Alberto della Gherardesca, in the first half of the 1800s, introduced a new wine culture with the hiring of winemaking experts, including Giuseppe Mazzanti in Bolgheri. In 1816 the first experimental vineyards arose at the Capanne di Castiglioncello, where later the first Sassicaia wine vineyard was born, and in the Castelluccio grounds. The viticultural choices were made not only based on the terroir but above all based on the French wine culture with particular attention to the methods of winemaking and the vines used in France: to confirm this, the choices made by Count Guido Alberto and Mazzanti were precisely addressed on French vines including Gamay, Cabernet and Syrah.
The destruction of the vineyards due to the phylloxera attack in the early 1900s forced the rethinking of the overall structure of the vineyard and the type of grape most suitable for the area.
After an interlocutory period between the two wars, the intuitions of the Marquis Mario Incisa della Rocchetta and his preferences for French vines proved to be completely founded.They demonstrated that the wines produced in this territory, starting from those French grapes, Bordeaux in particular, can compete with the most famous wines in the world.
The official consecration of the “Sassicaia” wine takes place in 1978 when the magazine Decanter publishes a comparative tasting of Cabernet from the world, and the “Sassicaia” takes first place. Subsequently, the 1985 vintage of Sassicaia competes, in a tasting of the Grand Jury Européen, with the Grands Crus of Bordeaux and obtains the highest recognition. Since then, its absolute excellence has been confirmed by many national and international awards in the periodic tastings of sector magazines.
The Bolgheri Sassicaia DOC wine obtained the recognition of the Controlled Designation of Origin on November 5, 1994.
The vines are grown in the province of Livorno in the territory of the municipality of Castagneto Carducci.
The geographical area dedicated to the production of Bolgheri Sassicaia DOC wine extends over the Livorno hills, in an area that is adequately ventilated, bright and favourable to the fulfillment of all the vegetative-productive functions of the vineyards.
Bolgheri Sassicaia DOC is made up of :
The ageing period is 24 months (at least 18 in oak barrels smaller than 225 litres), and the minimum alcohol percentage is 12,0%.
Cabernet here has an optimal ratio between vegetative development and grape production per plant; this translates into high sugar accumulations, good acid degradation and sensory feedback characterized by a high taste-olfactory persistence with evident notes of red fruit and spices. The high skeleton presence and the low depth of the soils induce a correct and limited vegetative development with excellent qualitative and olfactory results.
The characteristics of the land, combined with the agronomic practices practiced by the company, give the wine its peculiar characteristics of elegance and freshness, as well as an olfactory profile that recalls the Mediterranean scrub that surrounds the vineyards of this area. The taste has a good structure and great persistence, it is soft, warm, elegant and tannic.
The wine pairs best with pappardelle, truffled red meat, beef, furred game, saddle of hare with crock, wild boar on a spit, quail casserole, aged cheeses.
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