A place of worship in the wine world. We, Italians, often complain that we do not have our own Chateaux Margaux, Romane Conti or Opus One. But we are wrong, because in Italy there are some wineries that are something beyond and different than a fascinating winery. Those are the relatively few cradles of civilization of Bacchus, where everything is just perfect and where time becomes memory in history, remembering sensations, an indispensable ingredient in the making of wine. Castello di Ama is one of these meeting points of pure harmonies (...)
Ama is small village in the hills, about 500 meters above sea level, in the municipality of Gaiole in Chianti, in the province of Siena. It is located in the historic heart of Chianti Classico, where vineyards alternate with olive groves and woods.
The company, founded in 1972 for the sake of four Roman families, currently has a total area of approximately 250 hectares, of which 90 are planted with vineyards and 40 with olives trees, at an average altitude of 480 meters. The production, derived exclusively from owned vineyards, is around 300–350 thousand bottles per year, which corresponds to about 3,500–4,000 bottles per hectare, and finds its paradigm in the Castello di Ama, a wine that is obtained through the selection of the most suited areas of Sangiovese.
