2013 Ama - Chianti Classico Riserva
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The 2013 Chianti Classico Ama is a special wine and one that I enthusiastically recommend, given its affordable price and highly approachable style. This pretty Sangiovese-based wine opens to vibrant tones of dark cherry, spice, wet earth and pressed flowers. The wine is expressive, confident and articulate especially in terms of its varietal voice. Some 80,000 bottles were made, so this wine should prove reasonably easy to locate in foreign markets.
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Antonio Galloni, Vinous
Monica Larner, Wine Advocate
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The 2013 Chianti Classico Ama is plump, juicy and expressive. Dark red cherry, plum, smoke, licorice and tobacco flesh out in a pretty, nuanced wine that captures the essence of this reference-point estate in Gaiole. The warm vintage has resulted in an especially powerful entry-level wine. First introduced with the 2010 vintage, the Chianti Classico Ama is made from the estate's youngest vines.
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Castello di Ama is one of the pre-eminent estates in Chianti Classico. Situated in the southern-most district of the appellation, the estate has only been making wine since the late 1970s but has since built a reputation as one of the region’s best.