Donnafugata
Donnafugata Mille e una Notte 2020
| Denomination | Sicilia DOC |
|---|---|
| Size | 0,75 l |
| Alcohol content | 13.5% by volume |
| Area | Sicily (Italy) |
| Grape varieties | Nero d'Avola, Petit Verdot, Syrah |
| Aging | 13-14 months in new French oak barriques and then in the bottle for at least 20 months. |
Description
The palace shown on the label is the one where Queen Maria Carolina took refuge fleeing from Naples and was the favorite house of the writer Tomasi di Lampedusa in Santa Margherita Belice. Gabriella Anca Rallo – founder of Donnafugata, with her husband Giacomo – captures the image and embeds it into the sky from "Arabian Nights", full of stars and full of promise. A tribute to the passionate masterpiece of oriental literature, capable of telling thousand and one stories.
Awards
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2020
94/100
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Perfume
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Taste
Serve at:
16 - 18 °C.
Longevity:
10 - 15 years
Decanting time:
1 hour
- Start up year: 1983
- Oenologist: Antonio Rallo, Antonino Santoro, Stefano Valla
- Bottles produced: 2.400.000
- Hectares: 385
The name Donnafugata refers to the novel by Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard. A name that means "woman on the run" and refers to the story of a queen who took refuge in that part of Sicily where today there are the vineyards. A story that has inspired the company logo: the image of the head of a woman with hair in the wind that on every bottle.
Donnafugata in Sicily has 3 historical production sites. The ancient cellars in Marsala, where take place the processes of aging and bottling. The Contessa Entellina cellar, in the heart of western Sicily, with vineyards (270 hectares) and olive groves (9 hectares). The Khamma winery on Pantelleria, a volcanic island between Sicily and Africa, with vineyards Zibibbo (68 hectares) planted with tree bush (Unesco). Read more
| Name | Donnafugata Mille e una Notte 2020 |
|---|---|
| Type | Red green still |
| Denomination | Sicilia DOC |
| Vintage | 2020 |
| Size | 0,75 l |
| Alcohol content | 13.5% by volume |
| Grape varieties | Nero d'Avola, Petit Verdot, Syrah |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Sicily |
| Vendor | Donnafugata |
| Origin | Marsala (TP) |
| Climate | Mild winters with little rainfall. Warm, dry, ventilated summers. Substantial differences between day and night-time temperatures. Altitude: 200-600 m. a.s.l. |
| Soil composition | Hilly orography; clay loam soils with a sub-alkaline reaction (pH 7.5 to 7.9) rich in nutritive elements (potassium, magnesium, calcium, iron, manganese, zinc) and total limestone from 20 to 35%. |
| Cultivation system | VSP (Vertical Shoot Positioning) training with spurred cordon pruning. |
| Plants per hectare | 4500-6000 |
| Yield per hectare | 40-50 q. |
| Harvest | Manual harvesting of grapes into crates with careful selection of the grapes in the vineyard. The harvest of the grapes destined for Mille e una Notte began during the first decade of September with the Nero d'Avola and Petit Verdot, followed by Syrah. |
| Wine making | A further selection is carried out in the cellar, thanks to a latest generation destemmer, able to discard the green and overripe berries that might still be on the clusters. Fermentation in stainless steel and maceration on the skins for 12 days at a temperature of 26 - 30° C (79 -86° F). |
| Aging | 13 4 months in new French oak barriques and then in the bottle for at least 20 months. |
| Allergens | Contains sulphites |
