Tenuta San Guido takes its name from San Guido della Gherardesca who lived in the 13th century. It is located on the Etruscan coast between Livorno and Grosseto, in the Maremma made famous by the verses of Giosuè Carducci and extends for 13 kilometers from the sea up behind the hills. It contains three excellences:
Sassicaia, the Dormello Olgiata breed in thoroughbred horses and the Padule di Bolgheri Wildlife Refuge, the first in Italy.
From the official website www.tenutasanguido.com
In the twenties, a student in Pisa, Mario Incisa della Rocchetta dreamed of creating a purebred wine. His ideal, as for the aristocracy of the time, was Bordeaux. He experimented with some French grape varieties and concluded that Cabernet had "the bouquet I was looking for". No one had ever thought of making a "Bordeaux" wine in Maremma, an unknown area from a wine point of...
In the twenties, a student in Pisa, Mario Incisa della Rocchetta dreamed of creating a purebred wine. His ideal, as for the aristocracy of the time, was Bordeaux. He experimented with some French grape varieties and concluded that Cabernet had "the bouquet I was looking for". No one had ever thought of making a "Bordeaux" wine in Maremma, an unknown area from a wine point of...
Available from February 2022 Tenuta San Guido Bolgheri Sassicaia 2019 is a red wine with DO Bolgheri Sassicaia with the best cabernet sauvignon and cabernet franc grapes of 2019.
