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  • Weather

    8° C Overcast clouds
  • Time

    13:10 PM
  • Wine average?

    93 Tb
  • Country Ranking?

    84
  • Region Ranking?

    27
  • Popularity ranking?

    213

History

Ama takes its name from the small borgo, or hamlet, nestled in the hills at almost 500 metres’ elevation. Five centuries past, it was the centre of local farming activities, as well as wine production carried out by a group of families of the area. “Da Radda the road led to Amma, three miles away, on a hill, where the Pianigiani, Ricucci, and Montigiani live, the most prominent families in Chianti. They are well-off country gentry that spend a...

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Vineyards

Castello di Ama possess a total of 89 hectares devoted to vineyard, subdivided into five magnificent shell-like hillslopes that local geography has always known by the traditional names of: Bellavista, San Lorenzo, Casuccia, Bertinga and Montebuoni. These vineyards surround the hamlet of Ama on all sides, radiating out some 3 kilometres, and are sited at elevations that range from 328 metres for Bertinga up to 525 for San Lorenzo (Al Poggio).

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Winemaking

Since 2000, in collaboration with Galleria Continua di San Gimignano, the following artists have created site-specific installations (in chronological order): Michelangelo Pistoletto, Daniel Buren, Giulio Paolini, Kendell Geers, Anish Kapoor, Chen Zhen, Carlos Garaicoa, Nedko Solakov, Cristina Iglesias, Louise Bourgeois, Ilya e Emilia Kabakov, Pascale Marthine Tayou and Hiroshi Sugimoto. In 2004, Castello di Ama was awarded the Impresa e Cultu...

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11 different wines with 42 vintages

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  • Pietro Leopoldo

    The vineyards of Ama are well exposed, with much sunlight, all of them well tended, almost as gardens; this is the most fertile and highly respected part of Chianti.
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