2011 Chianti Classico Ama

Unfortunately, vintage 2012 will be remembered with a great deal of sadness at Ama. The late season rains could not have come at a worse time given where the vines were in their development. As a result, proprietor Marco Pallanti made the difficult decision to skip the entire vintage. That's right, Ama will not bottle a single drop of red wine in 2012. Ama's struggle with 2012 is a perfect example of how irregular this vintage has turned out to be. Some estates were given the conditions to make great wines; others were not. Pallanti describes 2013 as a year with a cool, rainy spring, very hot summer and then cool temperatures at the end of the season that brought harvest times back within normal timeframes.