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Vittoria Nero d'Avola DOC 'Contesa dei Venti' 2020 (750 ml.) - Donnafugata
Nero d'Avola Vittoria 'Contensa dei Venti' by Donnafugata is made from vineyards that are located in the south-eastern part of the island: the Victory area extends between the Ibleo plateau and the sea with an extension of about 36 hectares. The wine refines for 8 months in steel and 7 months in the bottle. It presents itself with a harmonious and elegant sip that stands out for the floral hints, fruity notes and spiced aromas. Hints of lavender and violet, red fruits and spices such as white pepper and juniper. Pleasant persistence and soft tannin. Excellent in combination with vegetables and grilled meats, salami and fish dishes.
- Product Category
- Red Wine
- Designation
- Vittoria DOC
- Grape / Raw material
- nero d'Avola
- Vintage - Cuvée
- 2020
- Size
- 750 ml.
- Country
- Italy
- Region
- IT - Sicily
- Alcohol Content
- 13% vol.
- Service Temperature
- 16° – 18° C.
- Suggested Glass
- Large calyx with a long stem
- Food Matches
- Pizza, Mixed cold cuts, Pasta, Red Meat, Roasted Beef, Aged Cheese, Fish plates
- Allergens
- Contains Sulphites
DNF-CONTESA-DEI-VENTI-2020
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Donnafugata was founded in Sicily by an enterprising family with 160 years’ experience in premium wines. Giacomo Rallo and wife Gabriella, daughter José and son Antonio are engaged in an entrepreneurial project with a focus on attention to detail and synchronizing people and nature to make wines that correspond increasingly more to the potential of this area.
The Donnafugata adventure began in the Rallo family’s historic cellars in Marsala in 1983 and at its Contessa Entellina vineyards in the heart of western Sicily. In 1989, Donnafugata arrived on the island of Pantelleria, commencing its production of naturally sweet wines.
Address:
Via Sebastiano Lipari, 18 - 91025 Marsala (TP), Italy
Color: Ruby red Bouquet: floral lavender and violet, strawberry notes and spicy aromas Taste: harmonious, soft and enveloping tannin, persistent and elegant ending.
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THE WINE
Nero d'Avola Vittoria 'Contensa dei Venti' by Donnafugata is made from vineyards that are located in the south-eastern part of the island: the Victory area extends between the Ibleo plateau and the sea with an extension of about 36 hectares. The wine refines for 8 months in steel and 7 months in the bottle. It presents itself with a harmonious and elegant sip that stands out for the floral hints, fruity notes and spiced aromas. Hints of lavender and violet, red fruits and spices such as white pepper and juniper. Pleasant persistence and soft tannin. Excellent in combination with vegetables and grilled meats, salami and fish dishes.
Curiosity
A label with intense colors that speak of red plums and lavender. A woman, the Contesa dei Venti, who looks into the distance, letting herself be gently caressed by the wind. The name of this wine takes its cue from the pleasant breeze that is always present in the Vittoria area and blows through the Nero d'Avola bunches by night as by day. A light wind that arises from the dialogue between the sea and the Iblei mountains.
THE COMPANY
The name Donnafugata, literally ‘woman in flight’ refers to the history of Queen Maria Carolina, wife of Ferdinand IV of Bourbon, who fled Naples in the early 1800s on the arrival of Napoleon’s troops, seeking refuge in the part of Sicily where the winery's vineyards now stand. This event inspired the Donnafugata logo, the effigy of a woman’s head with windblown hair found on every bottle. It was Sicilian author Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa in his novel Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) who gave the name Donnafugata to the country estates of the Prince of Salina. The estate was where the queen stayed, and it now holds the winery’s vineyards.
THE WINERIES
Donnafugata believes that great wine reflects the land of its origin. Nature of the soil, exposure, altitude, climat and vines are the principle variables for producing wines which express their belonging to unique terroirs. After choosing the right grapes for a terroir, targeted viticulture carefully and sensitively “reads” the vineyard in its interaction with the environment to bring the grapes at their qualitative peak. Frequent on-site grape tastings make it possible to pinpoint the ideal time for harvesting each individual vineyard. Vinification processes use simple technology respecting the integrity of the grapes, musts and wines. Through continual tastings the technical staff checks on sensorial goals linked to the fruit and the terroir. Intervening on the processes underway in vineyard and cellar, year after year precision enology redefines the boundaries of quality. The staff is composed of close-working experts (agronomist, enologist, quality-control manager, cellar personnel and vineyard overseers) who accompany the production process to ensure that nature takes its course in the best.
Contessa Entellina
The Contessa Entellina winery is located in the charming countryside of western Sicily, where vineyards are an integral part of the landscape. Donnafugata cultivates in 10 different terroirs a plurality of native and international varieties. A winegrowing choice to valorize the particular features (soil, altitude, exposure) of the different areas and produce wines of personality, fruit character, elegance, and finesse.
Pantelleria
On Pantelleria the Donnfugata winery and vineyards blend harmoniously into the landscape and the unique agricoltural setting of the island of volcanic origin, lying between Sicily and Africa, it is a rare example of heroic viticulture. The landscape reflects the hard labor required to create terraced plots and dry-stone walls in order to cultivate vineyard shaped by the wind. Donnafugata’s vineyards, where Zibibbo grapes are cultivated, are located in 12 districts (contrade) of the island differnt in soil, altitude, exposure and age of the plants (some vines are more than 100 years old). Khamma winery, example of sustainable architecture, has a technologically advanced equippement. The Zibibbo harvested in the different districts are processed separately to respect and enhance the plurality of viticoltural contexts.
Marsala
The old family cellars are the strategic base of the company, site of refinement and bottling for Donnafugata wines. The Marsala cellars, built in 1851, are a living example of industrial archaeology. The layout of the ‘baglio’, a typically Mediterranean warehouse, has been retained and features a spacious courtyard adorned with citrus and olive trees, as well as trussed wooden ceilings, the work of master carpenters of bygone times. Today, it houses a dynamic, productive enterprise which strives for excellence. This is where the products of Contessa Entellina and Pantelleria converge for refinement (in steel, cement and oak) and bottling. These processes are conducted with simple technologies that respect the intrinsic qualities of the musts and wines. Since temperature control is so important to every production stage, the cellars have air-conditioned, insulated rooms for maximum energy savings. Also in line with the winery’s environmental policies, the underground barrique room is carved from tuff (porous volcanic rock).