Castello di Ama
- Red
- Italy
- Chianti Classico
- Sangiovese
- Tracked vintages
- 28
- Community notes
- 724
- Merchant offers
- 121
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 90/ 1002020 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 82/ 100724 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £30per 75 cl2019 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026
- Drinking window
- 2019–2032peak2017 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 805 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Italian Chianti Classico Red.
- Body3.1 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.9 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.6 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.5 / 5
- DrySweet
- Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, red cherry, strawberry
- Oak · oak, tobacco, vanilla, chocolate, cedar
- Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, mushroom, balsamic
- Black fruit · plum, blackberry, black cherry, dark fruit, blueberry
- Spice · pepper, licorice, cinnamon, dried herbs, mint
- Dried fruit · prune, raisin, dried fruit, fig, black raisin
Grapes: Sangiovese. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
1996One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2019
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 202387drinkersunit not stated
- 202281drinkersunit not stated
- 202181drinkersunit not stated
- 202090criticunit not stated
- 201993critic£30 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026
- 201892critic
- 201792critic
- 201689critic
- 201490critic£16 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2019
- 200981drinkers
- 200877drinkersunit not stated
- 200691critic
- 200589drinkers
- 200490critic
- 200391critic
- 200288drinkers
- 200189drinkers
- 200089drinkers
- 199992critic
- 199881drinkers
- 199789drinkersunit not stated
- 1996£23 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, July 2017
- 199588drinkers
- 199491drinkers
- 199294drinkers
- 199184drinkersunit not stated
- 199094drinkers
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2019
- 93 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2017
- peak, window 2019–2032
- Lowest price
- 2014
- £16 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
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Where to go next
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