Tenuta San Guido

In the 1940s Mario Incisa della Rocchetta embraced the dream of producing a Bordeaux style wine, aged in barrique like French wines. He plants Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc vines, recognizing a similarity between Bolgheri and the Graves territory in Bordeaux. In 1948, he produced the first vintage of Sassicaia for friends and relatives, so called because of the stony and gravelly soil. However, the wine has only been marketed since 1968, when the collaboration between the marquis and the winemaker Giacomo Tachis began. The estate has been managed since 1983 by Mario’s son, Nicolò Incisa della Rocchetta thanks to whom Sassicaia became famous throughout the world.