1998 Tenuta San Guido Sassicaia

Community Tasting Notes (123) Avg Score: 93.6 points

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  5/18/2024 - Jiří Betlach Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Charming wine! This is the first time I have tasted Sassicaia at the age of 25 and I am totally excited!!! Beautiful full, endless taste, fantastic aroma! Such an aristocratic and noble wine! Sassicaia is the true queen of Bordeaux blend wines in Tuscany. If properly cellared, it has many years of life ahead of it. Drink until 2038. Rating 98/100

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  2/2/2024 - Evanbdavis Likes this wine:

  Wow, this wine is monumentally delicious! Sweet herbs, black currant, mint, cedar, sage, anise, licorice, black truffle, and pencil shavings. The fruit is ripe and sun-kissed. Extremely complex with a knockout finish. An icon for a reason.

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  1/7/2024 - Dibbs Likes this wine: 95 Points

  This one didn't hit the highs of the last bottle, and think few will, but this was damn tasty. It is an entirely different wine from the more recent Sassicaias. This was deep and brooding when opened and was in the decanter for about 2 hours before it started to open up. There is refinement and restraint of old-school winemaking. This is one damn tasty wine and still years from hitting peak. This bottle didn't hit the fifth gear of splendor that our last bottle did; maybe it needed more air to open up. Drink now with a 1-2 hour decant or hold for about 5 years.

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  9/8/2023 - Ravi Deshpande Likes this wine: 92 Points

  In a great place. Faded a little in the glass but very balanced

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  6/12/2023 - michigan66 wrote:

  this bottle was one of very view in my entire wine enthusiast life, which should be great, but was flawed.
  It did not show but tasted cork and had a smell, which remembered me on a wet basement.
  unfortunatelly a big disappointment, but we opened something else after this.

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