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Tenuta San Guido Sassicaia Slightly bricking medium red violet color; cedar, cassis, truffle, violet, lavender and mushroom nose; tart red fruit, smoky dried cherry, light plum and herbs palate with silky texture and good acidity; medium-plus finish 94+ pts.
The wine was a bright medium-deep ruby with a slight brickening to the rim. Perfumed, ethereal and very complex on the nose. Ripe bell pepper (the wine is majority Cabernet Sauvignon), plum, black truffle, mushroom, violets, hazelnuts, fine leather, cherry all swirled through the course of the tasting, along with a quality that can only be described as homemade tomato sauce! Perfectly ripe, without a single dominant or detracting element – I could have gone on smelling the wine all night! On the palate, the wine showed a ripe entry, with a savoury procedure across the mid-palate. Crisp acidity, moderate alcohol (astonishingly only 12% abv) and a moderate but densely focused body. The tannins were very fine, elegant and long. One taster described them aptly as “perfectly well-behaved over a long journey” – like an ideal travelling companion perhaps! And a long journey it was – savoury, juicy Drinking well now but even better in 5-10 years
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