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100 Point Rating Guide | ||
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| 96-100 | Extraordinary | A wine of finesse, complexity, and expression. True to variety and region. Perfect balance of flavors with a long finish. |
| 90-95 | Excellent | True to variety and region, with terrific complexity and balance. While not a wine for the ages, a superior example. |
| 85-89 | Good | Meets your expectations, with sound flavors and balance. Might have limited complexity or be short on the palate. A sound wine. |
| 80-84 | Average | Drinkable, might not have as much varietal character. Simple flavors, no flaws, but nothing special. |
| 75-79 | Below Average | Might contain one flaw, simple straight-forward flavors, off-balance, unpleasant. |
| 60-74 | Undrinkable, Flawed | Contains significant flaws. Unpleasant, not commercially acceptable. |
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1 User Review
Jul 31, 2009
The 2005 Sassacaia from Tenuta San Guido, located in the exclusive Bolgheri hillside coast of Tuscany, is another in a long series of powerfully endowed reds. Brooding and backward with deep, concentrated fruit. Spicy powerful, and still very compact, the wine will require extensive aeration in it's youth. After extensive swirling to to unlock the tannin this wine shows loads of powerful blackberry, dark cherry, and black currant fruit with a juicy, oozing texture. The wine finishes huge with nearly a full minute of retro-olfactory senesations. This is a dynamic wine which demands cellaring and should provide decades of great pleasure after 2015 or so. If you are serious about collecting and cellaring the great wines of Tuscany this wine is a must have addition to your cellar, as it gives even Bordeaux's best houses a run for their money.
