Castello di Ama Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Castello di Ama San Lorenzo 2021

Castello di Ama Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Castello di Ama San Lorenzo 202194 points Vinous Media Drinking window: 2027 2046 The 2021 Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Castello di Ama San Lorenzo is packed with dark red fruit, licorice, spice, leather and graphite. This is a decidedly potent, backward Gran Selezione. Clean mineral notes extend the finish, presaging a brilliant future. The sculpted style is hugely appealing. Here, too, readers will have to be patient, as the 2021 is very young.

and the tanks are thermo-regulated for perfect control

not run-off saignee or blended in still red wine

impossibly long and tannic

mixed subtle spices

vine age: Planted 2003

hand picked with some whole cluster bunches with a long maceration in cement tanks

Lustrillo and Tosca Cerrada

Our estate vineyard makes up approximately 40% of the final blend and the other two sources make up the balance

along with early bottling

7 hectares at an altitude of 220 metres

10% Parellada and 5% Malvasía de Sitges that didn't go through malolactic and refermented and matured in bottle with lees for 18 months

It has an expressive nose