2020 Castello di Ama Chianti Classico San Lorenzo
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There’s such vibrancy to the 2020 San Lorenzo, its sheer energy balanced with a soft, plush texture. The fruit is crunchy and fresh yet beautifully smooth and gentle, enveloped in fine, chalky tannins. A backbone of bright acidity and minerality drives on to a long finish. Lovely and still such a baby. 13.5% alcohol.
The 2020 San Lorenzo has toasty oak notes with a touch of vanilla and dry peppery spice from some high-quality oak maturation. Beneath the oak influence is plush layered dark cherry and blackberry fruit flavours with a nice spicy touch and lifted floral, violet tones on the finish. While not as intense or energised as the La Casucia and Bellavista cuvées, the wine still has impressive structural depth and good levels of concentration that will provide plenty of early drinking pleasure.
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Monica Larner, Wine Advocate
James Suckling
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Aromas of black cherries with flowers and sliced dried oranges. Medium-bodied with very tight tannins and a firm and racy finish. Shows polish yet strength. Give this at least four or five years to open.
The 2020 Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Castello di Ama San Lorenzo is fabulous. It offers up a compelling mix of blackberry, graphite, crushed rocks, spice, lavender and black pepper, showing striking inner sweetness, gorgeous mid-palate pliancy and mid-blowing balance, all in a medium-bodied style that will be approachable with minimal cellaring. San Lorenzo remains an archetype for contemporary Chianti Classico. Production is down about 30% in 2020 because of stringent selection.
The 2020 Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Castello di Ama San Lorenzo is fabulous. It offers up a compelling mix of blackberry, graphite, crushed rocks, spice, lavender and black pepper, showing striking inner sweetness, gorgeous mid- palate pliancy and mid-blowing balance, all in a medium-bodied style that will be approachable with minimal cellaring. San Lorenzo remains an archetype for contemporary Chianti Classico. Production is down about 30% in 2020 because of stringent selection.
About the producer
Castello di Ama is one of the pre-eminent estates in Chianti Classico. Situated in the southern-most district of the appellation, the estate has only been making wine since the late 1970s but has since built a reputation as one of the region’s best.