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Sassicaia 2000 600cl

DOC | Bolgheri | Toscana | Italia
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93 Wine Spectator
Shows its class. Loaded with fruit. Rich yet balanced, with lots of jammy and plummy character. Full-bodied, with round tannins and a silky finish. Exotic. Sass made excellent wine again in a less than easy year. Best after 2006. 16,600 cases made. JS
85 Robert Parker
Its hard not to wonder what exactly is going on at this famous estate of the Tuscan coast, the producer of Italys first international level Cabernet, and the 2000 Sassicaia is not going to resolve the perplexities. A reasonably fresh but not particularly concentrated ruby in color, its nose is rather evolved, with aromas which seem considerably older than its birth certificate. Medium-bodied and reasonably energetic, it is rather lean on the mid-palate, dry and somewhat tough on the finish. That the 2000 vintage was not a resounding success is anything but surprising, but the last really distinguished Sassicaia was the 1988, which already seems like a blast from the past, a nostalgia trip with little relevance to the present. Whats the problem here? Its anyones guess, but acreage has more than doubled since 1988, and all the wine goes into one mega-cuvee, old vines and young vines, vineyards which have historically given the estates best wine and others with no track record whatsoever. This may be a revolutionary approach, but, if its correct, everyone in Bordeaux is crazy, something I have some difficulty in accepting.
Produttore
Tenuta San Guido
Tenuta San Guido, la tenuta vinicola più emblematica d'Italia, ha accresciuto ulteriormente la propria fama grazie a una serie recente di ottime annate del più famoso vino del Paese, il Sassicaia. Fondata negli anni '40, la cantina mise in commercio il suo primo vino solo nel 1968. Nel 1985 Robert Parker ne riaffermò la fama, dando al Sassicaia del 1985 un punteggio perfetto e inserendo così la tenuta nella mappa del vino mondiale. Nel 1994 la tenuta fu la prima a ricevere la propria DOC, Bolgheri Sassicaia. Il riconoscimento vale per l'intera produzione: dalla seconda etichetta, Guidalberto, al terzo vino, Le Difese. Ogni vino è a modo suo unico ed emozionante.