Castello di Ama

Castello di Ama is one of Chianti Classico’s benchmark estates, a restored medieval hamlet near Gaiole in Chianti that was transformed into a wine property in the early 1970s by four Roman families. Under the leadership of owner Lorenza Sebasti and long‑time winemaker and agronomist Marco Pallanti—who trained in Bordeaux and later became president of the Chianti Classico Consorzio—the estate helped drive the region’s quality renaissance, replanting vineyards at higher density, adopting parcel-by-parcel vinification…