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Reviews

92 -Wine Enthusiast -

92 -Robert Parker's Wine Advocate -

92 -Vinous -

91 -James Suckling -

90 -Wine Spectator -

Technical Details

  • Blend 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 40% Merlot
  • Country Italy
  • Region Tuscany
  • Sub Region Tuscany
  • Appellation Tuscany
  • Oak French oak barriques, and a small part in American oak
  • Fermentation Fermentation in stainless steel vats with malolactic fermentation
  • Aging / Cooperage Aged in French oak barriques, and a small part in American oak, for about 20 to 25 months.
  • Alcohol 13%
  • Production 17,200 cases

Tenuta San Guido Guidalberto Toscana 2018

Proprietary Blends | Tuscany

WE92, WA92, VN92, JS91, WS90

$80.00

$39.95

750ML

50% OFF RETAIL!

Tenuta San Guido is the estate that created the Super Tuscan category with Sassicaia, earning the only single-estate DOC in Italy (Bolgheri Sassicaia DOC) and winning a 1978 Decanter blind tasting of great clarets over 33 wines from 11 countries. Guidalberto is the estate’s second wine, a blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon and 40% Merlot that offers access to San Guido’s legendary Bolgheri terroir at a fraction of the Sassicaia price. The debut vintage was 2000, and the wine has consistently represented one of the finest value propositions in Italian wine. The 2018 is a blend of beautifully handled Merlot roundness and Cabernet Sauvignon structure, aged 15 months in French and American barriques, with fragrant purple flowers, dark-skinned berries, and crushed mint on the nose and a refined, taut palate of blackberry, orange zest, licorice, and saline notes. Wine Enthusiast awarded 92, Wine Advocate 92, Vinous 92, James Suckling 91, and Wine Spectator 90. Access to one of Italy’s most iconic estates at a very accessible price. These are limited. Don’t sleep on them.

About The Producer

The Tenuta San Guido is a 7,500-acre estate located in the province of Livorno on the western coastal outskirts of Tuscany near the village of Bolgheri. Marchese Mario Incisa della Rocchetta acquired it through his marriage to Clarice della Gherardesca in 1940. The legacy of Sassicaia began in 1944, when Mario Incisa acquired a number of Cabernet Sauvignon and Franc vine cuttings and planted them on a sloping hillside of the San Guido estate, called Castiglioncello after the 11th-century castle at the vineyard's upper edge. This tiny, 3.75-acre vineyard stood alone until 1965, when a second Cabernet vineyard was planted with cuttings from the Castiglioncello parcel; the gravelly, 30-acre plot would give the wine its name: Sassicaia, "the place of many stones". With the radical changes in the D.O.C. system of regulations as of the 1994 vintage, Sassicaia's extraordinary reputation was acknowledged through the Italian government's granting the wine its own appellation, the only of its kind.

$80.00

$39.95

750ML