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LOT 275

Lot 275

TENUTA SAN GUIDO BOLGHERI SASSICAIA 2020 (6, OWC) WA 96

TENUTA SAN GUIDO BOLGHERI SASSICAIA 2020 (6, OWC) WA 96
Lot 275 Details
TENUTA SAN GUIDO BOLGHERI SASSICAIA 2020 (OWC)

Tuscany.

This vintage is a precise reflection of Coastal Tuscany, as opposed to a more generic "Tuscan" wine from elsewhere in this large central Italian region. You taste the ripeness and soft fruit weight that comes from a coastal appellation with especially bright luminosity and warm Mediterranean offshore breezes. Sassicaia from the cool vintages is a famously reticent or withholding wine in its earliest years, requiring a long lead time before it eases into an ideal drinking window. That's definitely not the case here. This wine is beautiful and compelling straight out of the gate, showing a lovely mix of dark fruit, oak spice, balanced freshness, textural richness, soft tannins and an expertly contained 14% alcohol content. The wine's immediate character is what distinguishes this vintage, and I wouldn't get too fussed by exaggerated cellar-aging ambitions. The wine awards sheer pleasure in its current form, with dazzling primary fruit and soaring intensity over the near and medium term. January 2023 Drink to 2042 WA 96

6 bts.    per lot $1,700 - $1,900

Realised: $2,724
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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