Sassicaia 2015

The best known Italian wine in the world, the epitome of balance in terms of body and complexity A modern Tuscan wine made from Cabernet grapes, an unusual time for the Tuscan wine.

Sassicaia 2015 is an Italian red wine from Bolgheri Sassicaia D. O. C produced by the winery Tenuta San Guido. Like other wines turned into legend, Sassicaia is the work of a visionary, Mario Incisa della Marquis Rocchetta, who relied on the grounds of the estate Tenuta San Guido to grow cabernet sauvignon by the similarity of their soil with the region Graves (Bordeaux). D.

TASTING:
- View: ruby ​​red
- Nose: it presents fine aromas of berries, cedar wood and spices
- Taste: is flexible and refined, with fine and elegant tannins

VINEYARD: Tenuta San Guido
REGION: Toscana
NAME: Bolgheri
GRAPES: Cabernet Sauvignon (85%) Cabernet Franc (15%)
AWARDS: 3 Glasses Gambero Rosso.
MARRIAGE: Dishes based on truffles - Meat Lamb and Sheep - Red Meat

Observations: Breeding for 24 months in French oak barrels (1/3 new), followed by 6 months in bottle.
Rouge0, 75202813, 5%
The finish is in the image of the mouth
A wine with lots of personality and class

2015 was a great year and this certainly explains the high scores (o a.. 97/100 Parker) was a cool year, which makes the wine more elegant with a nice acidity and a lighter color and less "alcoholic" than usual to do. The Sassicaia has good balance and intensity. The bouquet opens slowly delicate aromas of dark fruit and spices integrated build and then reveal a steady force. The mouthfeel delivers freshness and vigor, but all perfectly balanced with a long and silky finish.

Sassicaia is probably the most famous Italian wine in the world, the Marchese Mario Incisa della Rocchetta recognized the potential of the Bolgheri area in order to produce wines of extraordinary elegance and structure as the great wines produced in Bordeaux. Bolgheri is a very particular terroir: close to the sea and soils of a particular composition making it an incredible place for the production of wine grapes. In Bolgheri they are cultivated international varieties like Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc that  in this area are expressed as well as in no other place in Italy  creating legendary wines like Sassicaia, thus justifying their price. The harvest begin around the beginning of September and last for about three weeks waiting for the right degree of phenolic ripening of the grapes. Once the grapes are manually harvested a bunch selection on a vibrating table is performed before being de-stemmed and conveyed in stainless steel tanks for the alcoholic fermentation. This process takes place in about 10 days which are followed to another 5-8 days of post-fermentative maceration. The  polyphenols in the skins of   are disclosed in wine enriching the taste and the flavor profile. After fermentation the skins are separated from the wine, and it is conveyed in French oak barrels for about 24 months of aeging before blending and bottling. Sassicaia rests in the cellar for 6 months before release.

Tenuta San Guido, 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 who had the same unmistakable "bouquet" of an old Bordeaux I just tasted more than drunk, (because at 14 I was allowed 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, he 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.

The Sassicaia Bolgheri Tenuta San Guido was born in vineyards located in the beautiful Tuscan Maremma landscape. It is produced mainly on Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc grapes, harvested between the beginning of September and the first week of October. The process of vinification, at a controlled temperature of 30-31 ° C, consists in 2 weeks of maceration with frequent pumping and delestages, followed by malolactic fermentation in steel. The wine then matures in French oak barrels for 24 months and then aged in glass before being placed on the market. The Bolgheri Sassicaia is characterized by an intense ruby ​​red color and deep. The bouquet is seductive and elegant and opens with rich, ripe aromas of red fruits, blueberry, black currant and cassis, enriched by fine notes of Mediterranean scrub, juniper, laurel and myrtle, evolving into spicy fragrances and balsamic notes. The taste is sharp and focused, with a rich spiciness and chocolate sensations, vanilla, china and fern, balanced by a vegetable touch that gives freshness. Overall it is a wine of great elegance, with fine and soft tannins. Perfect to accompany dishes and game, especially wild boar, it is perfect in combination with large roasts.

It is a characteristic of Sassicaia to expect great results even in these less celebrated vintages. And this tendency was even more reinforced in the last decade. Sassicaia is intense, concentrated and deep ruby colour. Very complex and elegant on the nose, with scents of red fruits. Strong, concentrated, with sweet and balanced tannins on the palate. Very long finish with very important organoleptic and poliphenolic aspects, which will ensure to this wine an extraordinary longevity.

Sassicaia 2015 -L'annata of millennio- Tenute San Guido 2015 The Sassicaia extraordinary wine produced in the Tenuta San Guido, Bolgheri. The latter part of the municipality of Castagneto Carducci which is located a few kilometers north-west of the capital. It stands at the center of the Maremma Livornese, on the foothills of the Metalliferous Hills. Bolgheri famous, not only for the historical landscape features, even for red wines that are produced in the area. Thanks to the particular characteristics of the soil and to the sunny microclimate, dry and moderately ventilated, are well adapted in the area Bordeaux origin vines, such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Petit Verdot. Among the most famous we find the Sassicaia Tenuta San Guido (homonym fraction of the area), made from Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc (the historical farmhouse is located just opposite the Oratory of San Guido). The story The story of Sassicaia known to all fans, but it is worth mentioning some data salient. The first vintage coming to market to 1968. This was also the first with the label we know why Mario Incisa had already begun to produce this strange wines in San Guido in the 50 Tant 'true, to which only a few friends of the house were the good fortune to taste the 1957 or 1967 or the legendary Sassicaia different wine of 1977. the Sassicaia Bolgheri DOC wine. The allowable production in a specific area of ​​the municipality, produced with at least 80% of Cabernet Sauvignon. The Bolgheri Sassicaia one of the most prestigious Italian wines and produced exclusively by the Tenuta San Guido. This has all the vineyards in the area bounded by the DOC. The Sassicaia Italian wine more known to the world. The Sassicaia comes the genius of Mario Incisa della Rocchetta which, already in the twenties, dreamed of creating a classy wine. So He decided to plant Cabernet Sauvignon and Franc in Tenuta San Guido, for the resemblance he had noticed between these lands and the Bordeaux area: stony and stony soil, just like a "Sassicaia". Over the years, thanks to the valuable contribution winemaker Giacomo Tachis, the Sassicaia became the symbol of a wine production of the highest quality. The Sassicaia of Tenuta San Guido esalter all the big events and lavish dinners, but sipped in a pleasant solitude and meditation will know how to surprise anyone. Sassicaia The Sassicaia sumptuous wine from precious ruby-red appearance. The nose fascinate notes of ripe cherries, blackberries, black currants, rosemary, lavender, raspberry leaf and grassy world; all it accompanied by a touch of elegant oak note and mild tobacco cues pipe. On the palate it is appreciated for its intensity, vigor of difficult territory from which it is born, and a plot perfectly embroidered by freshness and sapidit. The Sassicaia best expresses the story that embodies s with aging. a masterpiece of the harsh land of Bolgheri, and only the large developments. Color: Deep ruby ​​red Bouquet: fruity notes of black cherries, blueberries and black currants blend of aromas of bitter orange, chocolate, graphite and Mediterranean Taste: Balanced, full and elegant with soft and smooth tannins and a long finish. 98 Points James Suckling