Tenuta San Guido Bolgheri Sassicaia Sassicaia 1985

So finely spun, with pillowed tannins, perfect weighting and freshness through the palate, fires up your senses with rosemary, white truffle, mocha, underbrush, olive tapenade, redcurrant and crushed raspberry fruits, utterly moreish. No hint of it going anywhere after an hour open in the glass, even at almost 40 years old. This was a low-yield vintage after a very cold winter, where 80% of the olive trees in Tuscany were destroyed, which no doubt contributes to this concentration and persistence. And if you want to know if setting makes a difference to the enjoyment of a wine, I first tasted this almost ten years ago during an estate vertical in a fresco-ceilinged Roman palace while overlooking the fountains of Piazza Navona. This time I was at home with a bowl of (excellent) pasta. Both times a stone cold 100 points.