It is always an emotion to open a bottle of Sassicaia. It would be a\ngood rule to open the bottle the day before, put the wine in a decanter and\nswirl it for about twenty minutes and then put it back in the bottle and leave\nit open to allow continuous oxygenation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coming to the climatic trend of the 2020 vintage, it should be noted\nthat it was characterized by persistent rains from the second half of October\nuntil the entire month of December. During this period, up until the first half\nof February, temperatures were high, often above normal, while from the second\nhalf of February, temperatures dropped to near 0 degrees. In March there were\nstrong sea winds, some rain, but mild temperatures. The weather was mild in\nApril with sunny days and average temperatures. The night temperatures were\nbelow the seasonal values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From May to mid-June there were various storm disturbances and\npersistence of fresh air from the north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since 17 June the weather has recovered with sunny days and temperatures\nin the seasonal average. In July, temperatures dropped again and there was some\nrainfall. In August, temperatures were above the seasonal average, causing an\nacceleration of the ripening of the grapes. Luckily there was no stress on the\nplants thanks to the good water supply of the land. The heat continued both day\nand night and therefore the harvest began on 3 September with the Merlot then\nwith the younger Cabernet Francs and ended at the end of September with the\nCabernet Sauvignon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was a harvest of lower production, around 15-18% compared to the\nalready reduced 2019. The lower production is due to the late spring frosts\nwhich affected the primary buds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite all this, Sassicaia 2020 is a great wine, perhaps less ready\nthan 2019, with an evident acidity on the palate with a taste of not completely\nripe fruit. All this portends a long life of the wine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now we come to my tasting notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TENUTA SAN GUIDO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n SASSICAIA, vintage 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ruby red with purple textures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From the glass rise scents of mint, eucalyptus, small grains of\nlicorice, black pepper, intense nutmeg, sea water (inner white part of\nwatermelon peel) lavender soap reminds me of soap (Atkinson), sacristy\nfurniture ( incense), Marseille soap, rosemary, laurel and sage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the palate it has freshness and acidity in evidence, flavors of not\nfully ripe blackberries and plums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sapid and mineral wine. The body is medium, not muscular but delicate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Good gustatory balance with evident relief on the alcoholic mass. The\ntannins are sweet, velvety, almost completely broad and coat the upper gum\n(6\/6-). Long is its intense aromatic persistence with blueberry and blackberry\nfinish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Long aging wine due to its generous freshness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n (98\/100)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is always an emotion to open a bottle of Sassicaia. It would be a good rule to open the bottle the day before, put the wine in a decanter and swirl it for about twenty minutes and then put it back in the bottle and leave it open to allow continuous oxygenation. Coming to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[137,332],"class_list":["post-12620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","tag-paolo-baracchino","tag-sassicaia","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.paolobaracchino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG-20230126-WA0056.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pav13q-3hy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paolobaracchino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paolobaracchino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paolobaracchino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paolobaracchino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paolobaracchino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.paolobaracchino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12623,"href":"https:\/\/www.paolobaracchino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12620\/revisions\/12623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paolobaracchino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paolobaracchino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paolobaracchino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paolobaracchino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}