Castello di Ama L'Apparita

Red
Italy
Toscana
Cabernet Sauvignon
Merlot
Sangiovese
Canaiolo Nero

Tracked vintages: 33
Community notes: 356
Merchant offers: 275

What we know about this wine

Critics: 98/ 1002021 vintage
Real drinkers: 90/ 100356 notes, every vintage
Market price: £128per 75 cl2021 vintage · 3-bottle in-bond trade, August 2025
Drinking window: 2012–2025past its window2005 · 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 478 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Tuscan Red.

Body3.5 / 5: LightFull
Acidity3.1 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin3.0 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.8 / 5: DrySweet

Oak · tobacco, oak, chocolate, coffee, vanilla
Earth · leather, smoke, earthy, graphite, cocoa
Black fruit · blackberry, plum, black cherry, dark fruit, blueberry
Spice · licorice, pepper, mint, juniper, cinnamon
Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, red cherry, strawberry
Dried fruit · prune, fig, raisin

Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sangiovese, Canaiolo Nero. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.

Realised in-bond trades£73–£175Shop asks£139–£139GBP per 75 cl · 14 priced vintages

1990One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2021

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.

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: 2016; 100 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2004; drinking, window 2010–2027
Lowest price: 2006; £73 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 tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid

L'Apparita monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure. 14 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them

View as a table

L'Apparita monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2021	£128	97.7	—	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, August 2025
2020	£139	97	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2019	£100	97.7	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2025
2018	£151	98.3	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2025
2016	£175	99.5	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2022
2015	£107	97	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2021
2013	£87	94.4	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2025
2011	£129	96.4	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2022
2010	£124	95	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2021
2009	£97	93.7	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2025
2006	£73	95.8	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2017
1998	£127	90.7	—	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, October 2020
1995	£85	92.5	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, April 2016
1990	£110	93.5	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, May 2016

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