Brands Tenuta San Guido
In the twenties, Mario Incisa of Rocchetta, a student at Pisa, dreamed of creating a race of wine.
His ideal was the Bordeaux. After settling down with his wife Clarice in Tuscany, in the Tenuta San Guido on the Tyrrhenian coast, he experimented with some French vines and came to the conclusion that Cabernet had the bouquet he was searching for. The decision to plant this variety in the Tenuta San Guido was partly due to the similarity that he had noted between the this zone in Tuscany and Graves in Bordeaux. Graves means gravel, for the stone land which distinguishes the zone just as Sassicaia in Tuscany denotes a zone with the same characteristics.
Despite the excellent forecasts, the first assessments were not positive. The wines obtained, being complex, needed more time to mature and develop.
From 1948 to 1960, Sassicaia remained a private affair and was only drunk on the Tenuta. The Marquis soon realised that the wine improved greatly through ageing. In 1965 he planted two new vines of Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet franc : the first of about 10 hectares in the Sassicaia holding and 3 hectares of the second in the Aianova holding. Both are the same distance form the sea (approx. 7 km), and at an altitude of approx. 80-100 m.
After this, Sassicaia was chosen as the name of the winery’s wine.
The vintage of 1968 was the first to be put on the market with a reception worthy of a Premier Cru Bordolese.
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