Description

Red Wine: 1998 | Castello di Ama | Ama

Ruby red in colour with lovely fruity and floral aromas. Packed with delicious sweet fruit, plenty of raspberry and tobacco flavours on the palate.

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Producer: Castello di Ama

Vintage: 1998

Size: 750ml

ABV: 12.5%

Varietal: Chianti Blend

Country/Region: Italy, Tuscany

Ruby red in colour with lovely fruity and floral aromas. Packed with delicious sweet fruit, plenty of raspberry and tobacco flavours on the palate. Weighty and round with a lingering finish. Recommended with pasta and grilled and roasted meat.

Producer Information

Castello di Ama is an Italian producer, found the Chianti Classico region in Tuscany. It is particularly known for its range of single-vineyard Gran Selezione red wines. The estate has about 75 hectares (185 acres) of vineyards, all within a two-miles radius of the village of Ama. Vineyard holdings include the San Lorenzo, La Casuccia and Bellavista plots with each producing a single-vineyard Gran Selezione DOCG. Bellavista is generally regarded as the most elegant, La Casuccia the richest and lushest, with San Lorenzo somewhere in the middle. Castello di Ama also produces a couple of IGT Toscana wines. Haiku is a combination of Sangiovese with Bordeaux varieties whilst a small plot of Merlot in the San Lorenzo vineyard is the source of L’Apparita. Red wines are fermented in vats and then undergo malolactic fermentation in barrels. All of the reds are aged for 12 months in barrique, except for Il Chiuso, which receives six months. Proportions of new oak vary between each wine as well as each vintage.