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A structured red wine with a remarkable personality. Complex and elegant offers on the nose a rich bouquet with balsamic scents, floral notes and spicy nuances. An ideal gift for wine-lovers, we recommend Mille e una Notte also for gala dinners and for your most special occasions. Structured and gentle perfectly matches with elaborate dishes of red meat, pork, lamb. Try also with chili-pepper flavored chocolate.
The vineyard
Donnafugata winery was founded in 1983 by Giacomo Rallo and his wife Gabriella Anca, continuing a wine story five generations long. Donnafugata is one of the most famous names of the renewal process of Sicilian wine.
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 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.