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In the twenties, a student from Pisa, Mario Incisa della Rocchetta, dreamed of creating a classy wine. His ideal, like that of the aristocracy of the time, was Bordeaux. After settling with his wife Clarice in Tuscany, at the San Guido estate on the Tyrrhenian coast, he experimented with some French grape varieties and concluded that Cabernet had "the bouquet he was looking for." A wine composed predominantly of Cabernet represented a great change in the Tuscan and Piedmontese tradition of Sangiovese and Nebbiolo. No one had ever thought of making a "Bordeaux" wine on Italian soil, not to mention the fact that the area was unknown from a wine perspective. The decision to plant this variety at the San Guido estate was partly due to the similarity between the terroir of Tuscany and Graves in Bordeaux. Graves and Sassicaia mean in their respective languages, "rocky terrain." Sassicaia has been the first Italian wine to successfully position itself abroad and is almost universally known as the father of a new family of Italian wines: the Supertoscanos (the Supertuscans). Mario Incisa's first vineyard is considered the cradle of Italian Cabernet.