2014 Sassicaia, Tenuta San Guido, Bolgheri Sassicaia, Tuscany, Italy

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2014 Sassicaia, Tenuta San Guido, Bolgheri Sassicaia, Tuscany, ItalyTasted from barrel, the 2014 Bolgheri Sassicaia is shaping up very nicely since I tasted it last year. In fact, it has made reassuring gains in terms of color density, aromatic definition and specifically textural richness. This wine will be released in 2017, but is scheduled to be bottled in November of this year (instead of January 2017) in order to allow it more time to flesh out and integrate in glass. The bouquet shows slightly rustic tones of

The wine opens to a pretty garnet color

concentrated dark fruit

with Mathilde and Hubert further to the fore this year

with harmonious fruit

Joe Whittaker

explaining that quality is excellent and the yield was neither too big

This is a vigorous whisky perfect for enjoying after dinner alongside dessert

Drink now to 2021

finishing on a lingering ferrous note

I can understand why the vintage was declared

Bachelets yields this year are similar to 2015 and close to the average of recent years

I have found this wine more praiseworthy in the past