 Sassicaia 1980-when you are looking for the perfect birth year gift Want to gift the perfect 40th birthday gift? Sassicaia 1980 may be what you are looking forHow to impress a loved one who is celebrating a personal milestone of 40th in 2020?
The perfect gift for someone's 40th is the spectacularly brilliant and yet respectfully and unassumingly, carrying its charm and all that praise casually, Sassicaia 1980. Sassicaia obviously is not new to the fame but back in 1980 it wasn't in every collector's wine cellar, where it should have been. (If it was in yours, you are a star ⭐ 🍷🙏) Although it had started gaining the just recognition a few years ago in 1978 when, as we mentioned in a prior post it triumphed over a field of "great clarets" of 33 wines from 11 countries to earn that international reputation. So, by the time the 1980 came, Sassicaia was already well known to a great extent. . We started first looking for 1980 bottles at the end of last year for a customer and chanced upon this one. . What excited me most personally was how this bottle, which came from a seemingly ordinary vintage has developed and flourished over its long tenure. Aside of the critical reviews from famous critics📝 (and even more important in some way), is how it has caught the attention of the wine lovers the world over. Some are those who were lucky to buy in the days when wine wasn't an investment but more a love affair. Others are those who were willing to dig deeper (in pockets 😃). But the virtual world is awash with ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reviews and reviewers who can't seem to get enough of this wine. A customer opened it recently to mark such a moment and another one is holding onto it for their special moment later this year. Four more left each @ $650 for you to have a similar opportunity to make that great day even more memorable.
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Sassicaia 1975 -another great birth year gift wineSassicaia stories.📝
Everyone has probably heard of the legendary status of the 1985 Sassicaia? The one that was first rated 100 points by Robert Parker. Why? Because it seems he mistook it for a 1986 Mouton-Rothschild. Thanks to that tasting, the wine now trades at a premium of about 5-6x of any other great vintage of Sassicaia. Damn you Robert Parker! But did you know 🤔, before the legendary 1985 stole the show, it was actually the 1975s which enjoyed that same legendary status and were considered among the best ever? It seems, in 1978 Decanter held a tasting called "Great Clarets" of the world's elite wines. This consisted of 33 wines, including Bordeaux First Growths. It was here, that the 1975 Sassicaia vintage took the first place 🏆 among all these legends. As Jancis Robinson, who joined the heir Niocolo Incisa for a tasting of back vintages a decade ago put it, "heady, quite amazing colour. And just lovely silky, racy complex palate with all the tannins melded. Lovely fresh stuff. So racy, Just perfect now! This has lasted magnificently - much better than most red bordeaux. 19/20 points." So not only the people born in the year 75 are absolutely the most amazing 😜, even the wines 🍷🍷 from our birth year are equally awesome! Have a lovely weekend all. |
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