3 wines 
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Wine area
Bolgheri and the Tyrrhenian Coast
The cypress-lined coast between Castagneto Carducci and Suvereto where Italy first bottled Bordeaux blends.
Tenuta San Guido
Tenuta San Guido is the estate behind Sassicaia. It is the only winery in Italy with a DOC of its own: Bolgheri Sassicaia. The Incisa della Rocchetta family farms around 250 acres of vines inside a property of about 6,175 acres. The land runs from the Tyrrhenian coast into the hills of Castagneto Carducci, and the cypress avenue of the Viale dei Cipressi crosses it. Marchese Mario Incisa della Rocchetta planted Cabernet Sauvignon here in the 1940s, decades before this coast had any fine-wine reputation at all.
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Tuscany
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About Tenuta San Guido
Bolgheri's modern history starts as a private experiment. In the 1940s Marchese Mario Incisa della Rocchetta planted Cabernet Sauvignon on the family's San Guido estate, and he aged the wine in barriques. Nobody on this coast had tried that pairing. The Bolgheri consorzio credits it with laying the basis of the whole Bolgheri style.
For two decades the wine stayed inside the household. It reached the market only with the 1968 vintage, after the founder's son Nicolo and his nephew Piero Antinori pushed to commercialise it. Sassicaia has been the region's reference ever since.
No other Italian wine holds its legal position. Bolgheri Sassicaia was recognised as a sub-zone of Bolgheri DOC in 1994. In December 2013 it became a denomination in its own right, and Tenuta San Guido is the only estate entitled to produce it. The wine stays Cabernet-led: Cabernet Sauvignon with a share of Cabernet Franc, grown on the stony parcels that gave it its name.
The estate dwarfs its vineyards. Its land runs from the coast into the hills, and the Viale dei Cipressi climbs through it from San Guido up to Bolgheri. That is the cypress avenue Giosue Carducci wrote into Italian poetry. Wine shares the land with two other callings of the family: the Razza Dormello Olgiata thoroughbred stud, and a wildlife refuge kept inside the property.
Two further reds complete the range, both Toscana IGT. Guidalberto, Cabernet Sauvignon with Merlot, was introduced with the 2000 vintage as a second wine with its own identity. Le Difese, Cabernet Sauvignon with Sangiovese, is the estate's most approachable bottle. Sassicaia and Guidalberto also circulate in large formats through the fine-wine trade, from double magnums up to six-litre imperials.
There is no cellar door. Tenuta San Guido does not open to public visits or tastings, and technical visits are reserved for wine professionals by written request. The wines travel instead. Sassicaia, Guidalberto and Le Difese sit on lists worldwide, and the village of Bolgheri, at the top of the cypress avenue, pours them a few kilometres from the vines.
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Winery
Tenuta San Guido
Bolgheri, Livorno · Bolgheri and the Tyrrhenian Coast
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Experiences at Tenuta San Guido
The estate lists nothing you can book online, and whether it receives visitors is not confirmed. Its phone number and email are in Practical info. A call is the reliable route here.
Group tours that travel the Tuscany countrysideThese tours stop at other producers in the area. None of them includes a visit to Tenuta San Guido.
Tuscany Day Trip from Florence: Siena, San Gimignano, Pisa and Lunch at a Winery
12 hours
From €85.50 per person
SMALL-GROUP Wine Safaris: Tuscany Wine Tasting Tour from Florence
9 hours
From €130 per person
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Winner 2026 Florence Sunset Food & Wine Tour by Eating Europe
3 hours 30 minutes
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What Tenuta San Guido makes
Tenuta San Guido's current bottle selection is led by Toscana IGT. The clearest grape signal comes from Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc.
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The Cabernet-led red of Tenuta San Guido at Bolgheri. It was first released with the 1968 vintage, and it is widely treated as the wine that started the Bolgheri style. It is the only wine of the Bolgheri Sassicaia DOC, a denomination reserved to this single estate.
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