About this wine
Vinification
Donnafugata harvests its grapes at night.
Tasting profile
The wine is elegant.
Serving and pairing
When served in large glasses, the bottle needs to be opened only a few minutes beforehand. Otherwise, it should breathe for a couple of hours.
Label / history
Tancredi takes its name from Tancredi Falconeri, played by Alain Delon in Luchino Visconti’s film Il Gattopardo (The Leopard), based on the novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. The label depicts the winery at Contessa Entellina floating among clouds like a mirage.
The name Donnafugata means “woman in flight” in Italian. According to legend, Queen Maria Carolina fled Naples and took refuge in a town in the Santa Margherita Belice valley, in the palace depicted beneath the stars. The story also inspired the windblown woman’s head found on many Donnafugata labels.
The Rallo family had produced wine in Sicily for 150 years before establishing Donnafugata as a more modern winery.
