Wine Castello di Ama, “San Lorenzo” Chianti Classico Gran Selezione DOCG, 2019, 1.5 L

“San Lorenzo” Chianti Classico Gran Selezione, 2011 – the flagship wine Castello di Ama farm, named after the beautiful valley in which is located the castle of Ama. Wine from grapes is created with the old plots harvested in step polyphenol full maturity. Undoubtedly, the Chianti “San Lorenzo” is a perfect display of the unique terroir and stands on top of the pyramid of quality wines of Chianti Classico. Some experts noted in 2011 a special vintage, fine, almost Burgundian elegance and perfect harmony between the notes of fruit and spices.

Vintage 2011 was collected in the period from 28 September to 8 October. After selection on the sorting table, the grapes crushed and destebliruetsya. Fermentation in stainless steel tanks at a temperature of about 30-32 degrees, and subsequent maceration take 21-23 days. Then the wine is placed in oak barrels 900 gektolitrovye for malolactic fermentation. Aged in oak barrels (20% new) it takes 12 months. After bottling the wine is aged before 2013 in the cellars of the winery. “San Lorenzo” has an excellent storage potential – 25-30 years.

Castello di Ama The company was founded in 1972. The small village of Ama is located in the heart of Chianti Classico: between two hills in the municipality of Gaiole in Chianti, Siena. The farm covers 250 hectares of the company, 90 of which are vineyards. Despite its youth, the Castello di Ama quickly became famous and became one of the best wine producers in Italy.
As it became known from documents found, Ama land is particularly suitable for growing grapes and producing quality wines. Ama was among vineyards, olive groves and forests. But, unfortunately, to the mid-20th century, little is left of the magnificent places, and restore them turned out to be a daunting task. For 10 years, the Castello di Ama has been studying the terrain, the construction of cellars and vineyards experiments. During experiments to determine the most successful land for growing Sangiovese. In order to understand how the grape is capable of more fully develop their potential in soils Ama, the company also cited experiments with Merlot, Chardonnay, Pinot. Thus, in five years were vaccinated about 50 thousand bushes. In just a few years, the company has converted 21 hectares of its vineyards means V-shaped planting, which helps to improve the quality of the grapes by increasing the illuminated leaves. The area of vineyards located at an altitude of 500 meters above sea level. The rich soil, perfect climate and care of the vineyards give the harvest of high quality.

Today, Castello di Ama makes known throughout the world and a truly great Italian wines. All the wines are subjected to long fermentation in barriques and aged in bottles for a long time. The basis of the philosophy of Castello di Ama is the desire to raise their national treasure – Sangiovese to the highest level that, according to experts, they are able to do perfectly.