Description
Guidalberto Tenuta San Guido 2019
Region: Tuscany
Grape: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot
Food Pairing: Goes well with rich meat dishes and aged cheeses.
Tasting Notes: Exuding ripe character of bright dark berries, with soft floral hints, and a sense of minerality with graphite and stony character on the nose. The palate is dense, vibrant and balanced, with a sense of harmony and solidity. This is the wine that always delivers early in its life – and it offers real value, too.
Guidalberto marks the new millennium: the 2000 vintage appears on the market with less pretense than Sassicaia and with a more approachable drinkability, while showing a great aging potential. It is not intended to follow in the footsteps of Sassicaia, but rather be a wine that shows another expression of the Tenuta San Guido territory.
The harvest, strictly by hand, began with the Merlot in early September and continued with the Cabernet Sauvignon, to be completed in early October.
Fermentation
Sorting in the field during hand picking of the bunches of grapes and subsequent selection on arrival in the cellar of the grapes and berries using a sorting table. Soft pressing and destemming of the bunches to avoid pressure on the berries and excessive release of tannin. Alcoholic fermentation carried out in stainless steel vats at a controlled temperature maintained at around 26-28°C, without any addition of external yeasts. Maceration in this vintage was about 13-15 days for the Merlot grapes and 15-18 days for the Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, with frequent pumping-over in the air and offloading to obtain more balanced musts, favour aromatic extraction and make the tannins more docile.
Malolactic fermentation, which began in early November, was also completely carried out in steel vats, after which the musts were placed in wood (barriques) for ageing.
Ageing
Once malolactic fermentation was complete, the wine was placed in French oak barriques, and a small part in American oak, where it was aged for a period between the 20 and 25 months. The duration of the ageing is technically decided on the basis of the seasonal trend of the vintage.
750ml
14% abv
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