Nose
Fruity, red fresh fruits, cherry and raspberry.
Palate
Elegant and harmonic with well-balanced spicy notes already at the first impact
Growing Conditions
Winter has been mild and rainy. In April, temperatures raised rapidly, while May and June have been very instable.
Finally, summer arrived in July and we had great temperature excursions between night and day, which helped to develop aromas and flavours in the wine. Although we had hail at the end of August, grapes were very healthy.
Exposure: Nord-Ovest/Sud-Est
Soil: clay and calcareus
Altitude: 460-525 AMSL
Vine Density: 5.200 vines/ha
Training System: vertical trellis with single Guyot
Clone selections: Sangiovese CC2000, CC2004, AGRI45, Merlot 343 portainnesto 420A
Harvest
After several samplings and organoleptic analysis in the vineyards and in our laboratory, on 26th September we harvest the Merlot, the Sangiovese was harvest on October 3rd and 4th.
Winemaking
Ama, produced almost entirely from Sangiovese grapes, was added to the estate’s wines with the 2010 vintage and the introduction of Gran Selezione quality criterion in Chianti Classico.
This wine is made from vines planted at high density (5,200 vines / hectare).
The grapes are hand-harvested from vines that are 10-12 years old on average.
Fruity and harmonic, the voluptuous Ama Chianti Classico expresses all the elegance of the estate’s wines.
Fermentation has started with ambient yeasts, separately for each variety in steel tanks at controlled temperature between 30/32°, with manual pumpovers and a total cuvaison of 26 days for Sangiovese and 26 days for Merlot. After the first racking, the wine has been transferred to steel tanks for malolactic fermentation.
Extract: 29,3 m/l
Aging
The blending of the grape varieties has taken place after malolactic fermentation. Afterwards the wine has been refined in second-passage oak barriques of thin grain, and finally bottled in January 2018.
Appearance
Ruby red with vermillion nuances
