🏰From an outstanding 2015 vintage that left critics and winemakers overjoyed, this Castello di Ama San Lorenzo Chianti Classico Gran Selezione is a benchmark from a celebrated warm vintage, now entering a perfect drinking window. The 2015 growing season produced fresh, fruity wines with good alcohol, thanks to significant day-night temperature excursions in autumn. This wine is a blend of Castello di Ama's best Sangiovese from vines 20 years old and more, grown on limestone clay soils mixed with galestro and alberese marl stones. This stunning Chianti Classico Gran Selezione showcases gorgeous 【dried black cherry, crushed pomegranate, and anise aromas, accented by red cherry, dried herbs, mushrooms, and forest floor】. It also reveals notes of blackcurrants, orange and lemon rind, brambleberries, heather, sage, thyme, blackberry leaves, plum, jam, cinnamon, cloves, tobacco, and leather. On the palate, it's powerful and assertive with ripe, steely, velvety tannins, offering great structure and density of fruit, often compared to Brunellos. It has refreshing acidity, a rich, rounded flavor, and a lingering finish with notes of dark red fruits, wet ground, and wood. 🍴 Excellent with red meat, spicy dishes, hard cheese, and white meat. Think traditional Tuscan fare like Bistecca alla Fiorentina, wild boar ragu, or aged Pecorino cheese. 🥂 A magnificent and mature Chianti Classico at its peak, perfect for a sophisticated Italian dinner party, a special anniversary, or as a thoughtful gift for a wine lover. Decant for 1 hour. Serve at 18-20°C (64-68°F). It's drinking beautifully now and can be enjoyed through 2035.