The 2021 Guidalberto is considered the best ever by Tenuta San Guido’s winemaker. It’s a classic 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot blend with deep color and rich aromas of cassis, blueberries, and violets. On the palate, expect ripe blackberries, gentle creaminess, and bright acidity. Medium-bodied with polished tannins, it’s elegant, focused, and full of savory, earthy notes. Ready to enjoy now but can easily age through 2033.

Decanter | D 95
Published: Mar 7, 2023
Drink: 2024-2038

According to Tenuta San Guido’s director of winemaking, Carlo Paoli, the 2021 is the best Guidalberto he has ever made. The percentage of Merlot was reduced back to the typical 40% this year because the quality of the Cabernet Sauvignon was so good. The 2021 Guidalberto is very deeply coloured, almost black with a narrow purple rim. It took an hour or so to really open up, but when it did, it had a wonderful range of aromas and flavours. Cassis and blueberry, blue flowers, and violet and iris notes are followed by a palate full of perfectly ripe blackberries and blueberries wrapped in gentle, cream flavours. This is a wine of velvety richness balanced by vivid acidity, with very pure, focused flavours and aromas. Delightful!
Closure: Cork
Alcohol: 13.50%
Body: Medium
Oak: Oaked
Grapes: 60% Cabernet Sauvignon 40% Merlot

The Wine Advocate | RP 94
Published: May 31, 2023
Drink: 2023-2033

A classic blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, the Tenuta San Guido 2021 Guidalberto shows tart cherry fruit with darker tones of blackberry and plum. This vintage delivers especially chiseled and focused fruit characteristics that are elegantly framed by light spice, cola and earth. This vintage shows a heightened sense of intensity and territorial identity that is the hallmark of this storied estate.

Jamessuckling.com | JS 93
Published: Jun 4, 2023

Aromas of blackcurrants, dark cherries, chocolate, ground spices and crushed rocks. Medium- to full-bodied with compact but supple and polished tannins. Shows savory notes with hints of dried mushrooms and chocolate. Attractive with a lingering finish. Drink or hold.

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Guidalberto is born as a tribute to the ancestor Guidalberto della Gherardesca, a pioneer of agriculture in the Bolgheri area who, in the early decades of the 1800s, built the first factories and churches and designed the Cypress Avenue.

Guidalberto marks the new millennium: the 2000 vintage appears on the market.The label represents the Oratory of San Guido and the wine is named after the family ancestor Guidalberto della Gherardesca, an agricultural pioneer in the Bolgheri area. It was in the first decades of the 1800’s when he built the first factories, and churches, and planned the avenue of cypress trees, the Viale dei Cipressi. These trees were initially used to mark the boundaries between the different crops. Its ornamental value, with the tall cypresses running in double rows, came after that.