Tenuta San Guido Sassicaia 2020 (750 ml)

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  • RP: 96
  • WS: 97
  • JS: 97

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Tasting Notes and Description

 Tasting Notes For Tenuta San Guido Sassicaia 2020

This exceptional wine showcases a lifted and bright palate, allowing the flavors to dance across your taste buds with each sip. The finish is both polished and long, leaving a lasting impression that will linger in your memory.

The bouquet of the Sassicaia 2020 is especially intriguing, featuring a lively plummy fruit element that is perfectly balanced with baker's chocolate, pepper spice, iron ore, caramel, and pie crust. A green character adds a positive twist to the bouquet, bringing in notes of aniseed, tea leaf, soya, menthol rub, and black olive.

The fruit maturity of this wine is spot-on, with no elements feeling over or underripe. The result is a perfectly balanced wine that will leave you wanting more. The Tenuta San Guido Sassicaia 2020 is truly a work of art, crafted with precision and care to deliver a wine that is both bold and refined.

Critic Ratings

James Suckling - Rated 97:

A very perfumed Sassicaia on the nose with forest floor, citrus and deep dark fruits. Blackcurrants. Cedar and black tea. Some balsamic. Pine needles. Full and very succulent. Really long, structured and complete. Tangy and energetic with a linear line of fresh tannins and acidity. Very Sassicaia throughout. 85% cabernet sauvignon and the rest is cabernet franc. Very attractive now in a youthful and vibrant way, but this will be better in three to four years. Try after 2027.

Wine Spectator Review - Rated 97:
Complex aromas and flavors of black currant, blackberry, iron, sweet tobacco and Mediterranean herbs are the hallmarks of this elegant, tensile red, which is already revealing plenty, yet still feels reserved, as though there were many more facets to be discovered. Superb harmony, freshness and a long aftertaste prevail. Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc.

Robert Parker Wine Advocate Review - Rated 96:
The Tenuta San Guido 2020 Bolgheri Sassicaia speaks to those who seek a more voluptuous, opulent and, ultimately, more accessible wine. This vintage is a precise reflection of Coastal Tuscany, as opposed to a more generic "Tuscan" wine from elsewhere in this large central Italian region. You taste the ripeness and soft fruit weight that comes from a coastal appellation with especially bright luminosity and warm Mediterranean offshore breezes. Sassicaia from the cool vintages is a famously reticent or withholding wine in its earliest years, requiring a long lead time before it eases into an ideal drinking window. That's definitely not the case here. This wine is beautiful and compelling straight out of the gate, showing a lovely mix of dark fruit, oak spice, balanced freshness, textural richness, soft tannins and an expertly contained 14% alcohol content. The wine's immediate character is what distinguishes this vintage, and I wouldn't get too fussed by exaggerated cellar-aging ambitions. The wine awards sheer pleasure in its current form, with dazzling primary fruit and soaring intensity over the near and medium term.
Winery Tenuta San Guido - Sassicaia
Country Italy
Region Tuscany
Year 2020
Grape Varietal Tuscan Red Blend
Size 750 ML
ABV 14%
Wine Style Red Wine

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