“…one of the great wines of Italy… Sassicaia and San Leonardo seem like brothers
separated in childhood.”
Wine Advocate, December 2014

“Surely the most successful Bordeaux blend of Northern Italy”
Jancis Robinson, August 2012

94+/100Wine Advocate (2014)

The wines are more akin to Bordeaux than Bolgheri with their balance and purity
and (says leading Italian critic Nicolas Belfrage) ‘can have an
elegance-cum-depth capable of taking on the best clarets of the world‘. San
Leonardo’s owner Marchese Carlo Guerrieri Gonzaga, a rare example (at the time)
of a professionally-trained aristocrat-oenologist, spent time at Tenuta San
Guido back in the 1960s and subsequently employed the same legendary consultant,
Giacomo Tachis, as Sassicaia for a time.

San Leonardo’s outstanding Bordeaux blend has received ‘Tre Bicchiere’ from
Gambero Rosso for an extraordinary thirteen vintages consecutively and was also
numbered among the Guide’s ‘Fifty Wines which changed Italy’. After great
write-ups from Jancis and last year Will Lyons from the Wall Street Journal
(whom we introduced to the estate), the Wine Advocate finally got on board in
December with Monica Larmer giving recent vintages of San Leonardo 94-97 point
scores.