Tenuta San Guido

Tenuta San Guido is where Sassicaia stopped being a family experiment and became one of the bottles that changed the way the world looked at Tuscan wine. Mario Incisa della Rocchetta planted Cabernet Sauvignon at Castiglioncello di Bolgheri in 1944, convinced the gravelly soils had something in common with Bordeaux’s Graves.

Sassicaia stayed private for decades before the 1968 vintage became the first released commercially. The estate never turned that success into noise: the identity is still Cabernet, Bolgheri, and a very particular stretch of land between the hills and the sea.

Sassicaia remains the estate’s defining wine and one of Bolgheri’s foundational stories, built around Cabernet, gravelly soils and a style that helped establish the region’s modern international reputation.