Winemaker Notes
Intense ruby red in color, it reveals a complex bouquet ranging from ripe small black fruits to Mediterranean herbs, and delicate notes of tobacco and spices. On the palate, it is soft, silky, and flavorful, balanced by a good tannic structure, with a long and persistent finish.
Professional Ratings
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Jeb Dunnuck
A highly luxurious style, the 2022 Greppicaia pours a dark purple/red color and is very pronounced and saturated with layered oak spice, toasted vanilla, cedar, boysenberry, plum, cigar box, and polished leather. While the oak is quite forward, this is a wine of high quality, with a bright spine of ripe acidity to balance it out and a full-bodied, broad-shouldered and well-defined, ripe texture that doesn’t feel weighted. It has a very long, salty finish with bright redcurrant fruit lasting long on the palate. I can't help but be impressed here, although it’s going to need several years in a cellar and is built for the long haul. Drink 2028-2050.
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James Suckling
Deep and intense, with dark fruit, coffee beans, chocolate, grilled herbs and burnt oranges on the nose. Structured and focused, with a medium to full body and fine tannins that frame the wine. Bright, agile and tightly built. There’s power that comes with harmony and focus. Drink or hold.
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Wine Enthusiast
The nose is earthy and herbaceous, with notes of chalk, top soil, pepper, mixed Mediterranean herbs and crushed mixed berries. The palate leans sweeter, with blueberries, blackberries and chocolate, but balance comes from more pepper and herbs, plus a hot, salty finish.
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Wine Spectator
A solid underpinning allows the black cherry, blackberry, cedar and spice flavors to unravel as this red builds on the palate to the long aftertaste. Balanced and complex, with a mineral element emerging on the finish. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc. Best from 2028 through 2042.
One of the world’s most classic and popular styles of red wine, Bordeaux-inspired blends have spread from their homeland in France to nearly every corner of the New World. Typically based on either Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot and supported by Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot, the best of these are densely hued, fragrant, full of fruit and boast a structure that begs for cellar time. Somm Secret—Blends from Bordeaux are generally earthier compared to those from the New World, which tend to be fruit-dominant.
An outstanding wine region made famous by Marchese Mario Incisa della Rocchetta, who planted Cabernet Sauvignon vines for his own consumption in 1940s on his San Guido estate, and called the resulting wine, Sassicaia. Today the region’s Tuscan reds are based on Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, which can be made as single varietal wines or blends. The local Sangiovese can make up no more than 50% of the blends. Today Sassicaia has its own DOC designation within the Bogheri DOC appellation.