Description
Tenuta San Guido - Sassicaia 2020 75cl
Winery: Tenuta San Guido
Grape : Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc
Region : Italy / Tuscany / Bolgheri
Wine Style: Italian Bolgheri
Alcohol Content: 14%
Food Pairing: Perfect combinations with Sassicaia can therefore be dishes based on game such as stews, braised, wild boar, guinea fowl or duck based, but also roast veal and pork.
Description: Deep, firm and complex, very dark aroma of blackcurrants, leather, red pepper and black pepper with cedary aromas, eucalyptus, dried red meat, chilli peppers and a little black olives and tobacco. Tart and firm in the mouth, a little smoky and slightly bacony, still closed, predominantly dark fruit with bacony tones, grilled peppers, some cedar, tobacco and pepper again, present, fine sandy, undeveloped tannin, dense and persistent on the palate, a hint of cocoa and coffee grounds, clearly salt in the background, also dried capers, pithy style, still rather unapproachable, gains in finesse, noblesse and elegance with air, restrained power, good depth, very good to long, tart, complex, clearly salty finish with a lot of grip. Needs to mature.