Sassicaia 1996

In the twenties, a student in Pisa, Mario Incisa della Rocchetta dreamed of creating a classy wine. His ideal, as the aristocracy of the time, it was Bordeaux. So he describes in a letter to the Veronelli 11/06/1974. "... The experiment origin dates back to the years between 1921 and 1925, when a student at Pisa and a frequent guest of the Dukes Salviati in Migliarino, I drank a wine from their vineyard on Mount Vecchiano that had the same distinctive "bouquet" of an old Bordeaux I just tasted more than drunk, (because 14 years does not allow me to drink wine) before 1915, at the home of my grandfather Chigi. "Having established with his wife Clarice in Tenuta San Guido on the Tyrrhenian coast, experimented with several French grape varieties (whose cuttings he had recovered from the estate of the Dukes Salviati in Migliarino, and not from France) and concluded that the Cabernet had "the bouquet I was looking for." No one had ever thought of doing a "Bordeaux" wine in Maremma, an unknown area under wine point of view. The decision to plant this variety in the Tenuta San Guido was partly due to the similarity that he had noticed in this area of ​​Tuscany and Graves, Bordeaux. Graves means gravel, stony ground for distinguishing the area, just like Sassicaia, in Tuscany, an area calls with the same characteristics. From 1948 to 1967, Sassicaia it remained strictly private domain, and was drunk only at the estate. Vintage Bottle: 1996

Grapes: 85% Cabernet Sauvignon - 15% Cabernet Franc

Alcohol: 13, 5
Contents: 0, 75 l
Product for many years as a simple table wine, the sassicaia saw finally recognized their DOC in the name of the territory where it is produced, the town of Bolgheri, not far from Castagneto Carducci. And 'brilliant garnet red color and intense, full and persistent fragrance, penetrating, with notes of cherries on grassy background combined with aromatic wood, vanilla and spicy notes. The flavor is dry, harmonious, very long aftertaste in suggesting the olfactory sensations

Tenuta San Guido Marchesi Incisa della Rocchetta Sassicaia 1996. This is definitely one of the best years of Sassicaia. Among the various awards also the three glasses Gambero Rosso.