Tenuta San Guido

Tenuta San Guido is a legendary Tuscan winery located in the Bolgheri area. The glorious history of the estate begins when the Marquis Mario Incisa della Rocchetta , cousin of the Antinori family, takes the reins of the property and inaugurates the production of a great wine made in the manner of Bordeaux wines, Sassicaia . He became a legend with this intuition, in the 1940s, so he planted some Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc vines: this thanks to the similarity between the territory of Bolgheri and that of Graves, in Bordeaux. Sassicaia, so called due to the stony and gravelly composition of the soil, was put on the market only starting from the 1968 vintage (after 20 years of trials and experiments) and also marked the beginning of the collaboration between the Marquis and the great winemaker Giacomo Tachis . Initially the wine was welcomed in Italy with many doubts, given the substantial novelty of the use of international vines and barrique, but in a few years it achieved international fame as one of the best red wines in the world, especially with the 1985 vintage , considered like the first great Sassicaia vintage. Tenuta San Guido has been managed since 1983 by Nicolò Incisa della Rocchetta, Mario's son, who deserves credit for having contributed to and increased the prestige of Sassicaia in the world, remaining faithful to his father's intuition, and for having created other great wines: Guidalberto , produced since 2000 and Le Difese , since 2002. Names that constitute an obligatory passage for all lovers of great red wines. True national glories, symbols of Italian excellence in the world.