Winemaker Notes
An enticing combination of black currant, black cherry, violet, cedar and cigar box flavors highlight. This intense structured red, which needs some time to resolve the tannins, but this shows ample fruit and balance.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Restrained brambleberries with licorice root, slightly leafy eucalyptus and integrated graphite. Full body with elegant, velvety tannins, crisp acidity and a tight-knit structure. Power and extraction here, but a good, toasty finish with a sweet-tobacco aftertaste.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Pouring a purple/magenta color, the 2022 Volpolo Di Sapaio is ripe on the nose with aromas of blackberry preserve, blue fruit, purple flowers, and fresh sage. It’s expansive and full on the palate, with good balance and freshness, salty, fresh acidity, underlying mineral accents, and plush, building tannins.
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Vinous
Violet and lavender give way to crushed blackberries and sage as the 2022 Volpolo di Sapaio wafts up from the glass. It’s silky smooth and pliant with tactile mineral tones underscoring fresh acidity and depths of wild blueberry fruit. This finishes with admirable length and concentration, leaving chalky tannins on the close.
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.