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Tenuta San Guido
Tenuta San Guido is the estate behind Sassicaia, and the only winery in Italy with a DOC of its own: Bolgheri Sassicaia. The Incisa della Rocchetta family farms around a hundred hectares of vines on a 2,500-hectare property running from the Tyrrhenian coast into the hills of Castagneto Carducci, crossed by the cypress avenue of the Viale dei Cipressi. 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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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 aged the wine in barriques, a pairing nobody on this coast had tried, and one the Bolgheri consorzio credits 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, and Sassicaia has been the region's reference ever since.
No other Italian wine holds its legal position. Recognised as a sub-zone of Bolgheri DOC in 1994, Bolgheri Sassicaia became a denominazione in its own right in December 2013, 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. Some 2,500 hectares run from the coast into the hills, with around a hundred hectares under vine, and the Viale dei Cipressi, the cypress avenue Giosue Carducci wrote into Italian poetry, climbs through it from San Guido up to Bolgheri. 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, from double magnums to six-litre imperials, through the fine-wine trade.
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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Tenuta San Guido on the Tuscany wine atlas
Wine area
Bolgheri and the Tyrrhenian Coast
The cypress-lined coast between Castagneto Carducci and Suvereto where Italy first bottled Bordeaux blends.
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Tenuta San Guido
Bolgheri, Livorno · Bolgheri and the Tyrrhenian Coast
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Visiting Tenuta San Guido
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Tastings
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Tours
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Walk-ins OK
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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.
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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, first released with the 1968 vintage and 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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