Tenuta San Guido and Sassicaia

Tenuta San Guido is the estate behind Sassicaia, the wine that gave Bolgheri its international reputation. It lies in the Bolgheri area of the comune of Castagneto Carducci, in the province of Livorno, among woods, fields and vineyards that run towards the sea.

The wine that changed the coast

Sassicaia began as a private wine on the estate, made from Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc planted by Mario Incisa della Rocchetta in the 1940s. It was released commercially from 1968 and gradually proved that the Tuscan coast could produce a wine of the first rank. In 1994 the zone received its own Bolgheri Sassicaia DOCG, a denomination created around this single estate and its wine.

The estate also produces Guidalberto and Le Difese, wines that make the house approachable without pretending to be Sassicaia. They are a sensible place to start if you want to understand the style before tasting the flagship.

Visiting Tenuta San Guido

This is a private working estate rather than a visitor centre. Access is limited and arranged directly with the winery; we do not publish opening hours, prices or availability, and Roc Villa Bay has no affiliation with the estate. If a visit matters to you, write well in advance and accept that the answer may be no.

Even without a tasting, the landscape is part of the story: the flat fields, the woods and the sea light that convinced a Piedmontese family to plant Bordeaux varieties here.

Roc Villa Bay as a coastal base

Roc Villa Bay is in Castiglioncello, on a different stretch of the Livorno coast. It is a private seafront house with four bedrooms, three private units, a large Mediterranean garden and two private accesses to the sea. It suits a group that wants to spend a morning among the vineyards and the afternoon in the water.

The Bolgheri wineries guide places San Guido among the other estates; villas near Bolgheri explains honestly where we are. To ask about dates, use the enquiry form.