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Thu, Jan 23, 2025 03:00PM EST - Fri, Jan 24, 2025 03:00PM EST
  • 2020
  • 750ml
  • Italy
  • Tuscany
  • Bolgheri
  • Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc
  • Red
  • OWC
Lot 87

2020 Sassicaia Bolgheri - 6 bottle(s)-750ml

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This lot is comprised of 6 bottle(s) of 2020 Sassicaia Bolgheri - 750ml. Estimate for this lot is between $1560 - $2160 with a Buy it Now of $1860. The wine in this lot belongs to collection 11257.

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A blue chip collection filled with top California cult and fine Burgundy. The collector began amassing Old World wines when living in Montreal and Toronto and expanded his appreciation for California wine when living in San Francisco. Starting his cellar in the late 1990's, the majority of the wines were purchased directly from the winery or estate and were stored in a temperature and humidity-controlled private cellar.
The score for 2020 Sassicaia Bolgheri is 96 points from Robert Parker and the tasting note - The Tenuta San Guido 2020 Bolgheri Sassicaia speaks to those who seek a more voluptuous, opulent and, ultimately, more accessible wine. 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.