In the 1920s, a student from Pisa, Mario Incisa della Rocchetta, dreamed of creating a wine with class. 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 vines and concluded that Cabernet had "the bouquet he was looking for".A wine composed predominantly of Cabernet represented a major departure from the Tuscan and Piedmontese tradition of Sangiovese and Nebbiolo. None had ever thought of making a "Bordeaux" wine on Italian soil, not to mention the fact that the area was unknown from a winemaking point of view.The decision to plant this variety on the San Guido estate was, in part, due to the similarity between the Tuscan terroir and Graves in Bordeaux. Sassicaia was the first Italian wine to successfully position itself abroad and is almost universally known as the father of a new family of Italian wines: I supertoscani (the super Tuscans). Mario Incisa's first vineyard is considered the cradle of Italian Cabernet.