Castello di Ama Chianti Classico Riserva
- Red
- Italy
- Chianti Classico
This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.
- Tracked vintages
- 6
- Community notes
- 147
- Merchant offers
- 62
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 91/ 1002009 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 82/ 100147 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £49per 75 cl2009 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2020
- Drinking window
- UnknownNot recorded on any vintage we track
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 97 community ratings, read 2026-08-12.
- Body3.2 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.8 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.5 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.5 / 5
- DrySweet
- Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, mushroom, balsamic
- Oak · oak, tobacco, chocolate, coffee, vanilla
- Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, strawberry, red fruit, red cherry
- Black fruit · plum, dark fruit, black cherry, blackberry, black fruit
- Spice · licorice, pepper, mint, cinnamon, dried herbs
- Dried fruit · prune, raisin, dried fruit, fig
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2005One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2009
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.
Every score below is a critic score.
- 2021unit not stated
- 200991£49 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2020
- 200894£41 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2025
- 200793£35 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2020
- 200692£37 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2019
- 200593£19 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, February 2016
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2008
- 94 / 100 from a critic
- Lowest price
- 2005
- £19 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
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | £49 | 91.2 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2020 |
| 2008 | £41 | 94.4 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2025 |
| 2007 | £35 | 93 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2020 |
| 2006 | £37 | 92 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2019 |
| 2005 | £19 | 93 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, February 2016 |
Where to go next
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