Guidalberto
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2025 - 2035
🍽️ wine.food_pairings
Roasted lamb, grilled beef ribeye, and pasta with wild boar ragu.
✨ wine.spec_sheet
The 2022 Guidalberto is a blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon and 40% Merlot, sourced from estate vineyards in the Bolgheri DOC of Tuscany. The soils here are characterized by a mix of limestone, clay, and stony alluvial deposits. The 2022 growing season in Bolgheri was marked by a hot, dry summer, which was mitigated by late-summer rains that allowed for optimal phenolic ripeness. The wine was fermented in temperature-controlled stainless steel vats and aged for 15 months in a combination of French and American oak barriques, followed by three months of refinement in the bottle.
🍾 wine.about_producer
Situated in the coastal Bolgheri region of Tuscany, Italy, Tenuta San Guido was established by Marchese Mario Incisa della Rocchetta, who revolutionized the Italian wine landscape in the 1940s by planting French grape varieties on the estate's gravelly soils. Driven by a desire to create a noble, Bordeaux-style red wine, the estate pioneered the "Super Tuscan" movement, utilizing French oak barriques for aging to craft wines of exceptional structure and longevity. The estate is internationally legendary for its flagship wine, Sassicaia—a masterful blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc that earned its own unique single-estate appellation, Bolgheri Sassicaia DOC. Alongside this icon, Tenuta San Guido produces Guidalberto, an elegant blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, maintaining an unwavering commitment to elegance, complexity, and terroir-driven expression.