1998 Tenuta San Guido Sassicaia

Community Tasting Notes (122) Avg Score: 93.6 points

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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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  4/30/2023 - KVM wrote:

  Vertical Tasting Seven Vintages from 1997 to 2018.
  
  2018. Dark red. Cherry nose and rather closed. Light body, bright to sharp acid. Dark cherry, fine but young tannin. Long finish.
  
  2013 Very dark red. Cherry, cassis, wood but not vanilla, white pepper nose. Terrific intensity on the welcoming palate - dark fruit, cherry, and blackberry. So light on its feet, and really athletic. Acid is obvious, tannin is firm on the finish but that is equalled by the intense fruit. Long finish.
  
  2011 Very dark with a mahogany edge. Green pepper, cherry, and airy. Much larger body than the younger wines; it's mouth-filling. As with the 2013, the acid is obvious but balanced, in context. Leather, cherry, long finish... so impressive. the tannin is obvious on the finish. Later in the evening, the fruit is even more exotic.
  
  2000 Dark red and mahogany edge. Peanut, smoke nose but ripe enough. Palate has cherry, leather, and some spice. Good concentration.
  
  1999 Dark red mahogany cast. Green pepper, cherry nose. Very concentrated in a medium body. Palate has leather and cherry fruit. Balance is excellent, tannin is suave. Not the longest finish.
  
  1998 Very dark with mahogany edge. Nose with green pepper and dark fruit and fruit liqueur. Leather and sweet cherry palate, so complex. Great length to the finish.
  
  1997 Very Dark red and mahogany cast. Green pepper, horse sweat in the intense and mature nose. Green pepper then cherry then leather on the palate with great intensity.
  
  Summary: I pick the 1997 as the best Sassicaia tonight and the 2011 is the wine with the best future.
  
  Mystery wine: Very dark red, white pepper, blackberry nose. Cassi on the light-bodied palate. Tannin is drying and this seems not as ripe as the other wines tonight. I guessed it to be 10 to 15 years old and from California's north coast mountainside.... it is Haut Brion 2002.

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