Castello di Ama Winery

 

Castello di Ama

“A place of cultic importance in the wine world. We Italians often complain that we do not have our own Chateaux Margaux, our Romanée Conti, our Opus One. But we are wrong, for we do have here in Italy some wine “houses” that are something better, something beyond the normal cellar. Relatively few, perhaps, but true domains of Bacchus where everything is utterly flawless, where time assumes the feel of history, the memory of timeless impressions, the quintessential ingredient in the evolution of wine. Castello di Ama is one of those places where one encounters the Platonic absolutes (…)”



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Chianti Classico 2006 – Castello di Ama « Wine Inside

I have to admit that 90% of the time that I think about a Chianti, my mind recall an image connected to Castello di Ama, and this is not a case because this winery with this wine and even more with Vigneto la Casuccia gives a wonderful ...

LOVE WINE AND CHEESE: Castello di Ama and Installation Art

Castello di Ama owns about 80 hectares of land thus divided into different single vineyards -- and within those single vineyards, such as their "Bellavista" vineyard -- predominantly Sangiovese, they further divide the land into ...

Castello di Ama

Castello di Ama Chianti Classico 2006 82/100. A bit of awkward funk (wet leaf) coupled with apple and baking spice on the nose has me worried and there's not much there to rescue it in the mouth. Lacking balance and depth, ...

Castello di Ama Toscana Estate Rosato 2008

We made a final blend of these lots in December 2008 and bottled the wine at the end of January 2009. We produced 1.690 half bottles and 58.000 bordeaux bottles. Vineyard profile The terroir that yields Castello di Ama's Rosé is the ...


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