Tenuta San Guido

Tenuta San Guido is the Tuscan estate that created Sassicaia - a Cabernet Sauvignon-dominant wine first produced by Mario Incisa della Rocchetta in the 1940s as a personal project inspired by the great Bordeaux estates. Commercial release began in 1968, and Sassicaia is now one of Italy's most recognised and collected red wines, with its own DOC appellation - Bolgheri Sassicaia - established in 2013.

The wine is made from Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc grown on the estate's coastal Tuscan vineyards and aged for two years in French barriques. It is a wine of considerable structure and longevity, capable of developing over 20 to 30 years in great vintages, and remains the standard-bearer for the Super Tuscan category it helped create.