Winemaker Notes
Blend: 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Petit Verdot, 10% Cabernet Franc
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
From a highly anticipated vintage, the Podere Sapaio 2021 Sapaio reveals extra volume and textural richness, but it remains incredibly focused throughout. The wine delivers a seamless quality in which the blended varieties—Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc—are expertly played against each one another to form the building blocks of this very pretty wine. It finishes long and with lots of balanced intensity. That brilliant sharpness is what distinguishes this vintage.
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James Suckling
A restrained wine with aromas of bark, spices, vibrant cassis, flowers and Mediterranean herbs. Medium-bodied, it shows good fruit concentration, suppleness, integrated acidity, firm, velvety tannins and a tight, balanced finish. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold.
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Wine Spectator
Open and smooth, this red is saturated with juicy blackberry, black currant and black cherry flavors, with accents of iron and spices. Its tannins are integrated, and this is long. Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc.
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.