Wine and culture: history of the name Mille e una Notte "Mille una Notte" is The Thousand and One Nights the world-famous Middle Eastern classic whose characters and tales are etched in collective memory. It is a work that has inspired artists of all kinds and cultures. In cinema it ranges from the 1942 Hollywood version "Arabian Nights" to the 1969 animated Japanese film animated Japanese film "Senya ichiya monogatari" to "Il fiore delle Mille e una notte" directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, in 1974.

In painting it inspired unique and charming lithographs by Marc Chagall: "Four Tales from The Arabian Nights".
The book is a lovely, imaginative creation, an endless set of tales nesting within one another in a skillfully-woven plot.

The first time Gabriella Anca Rallo tasted this great red wine she found it both potent and charming and exclaimed: "this is a fantastic wine, worthy of the Thousand and One Nights! Let's call it that!"

Gabriella, Josè and the Mille e una Notte

The character of a great red wine Mille e una Notte Noble version of Nero d'Avola and small percentage of other varieties, Mille e una Notte has a dense ruby-red color. A red with great structure and complexity, intense and elegant, it offers an enveloping bouquet revealing fruity, sweet and ripe scents on balsamic and floral notes.

As one is dazzled and entranced by the never-ending story in this collection of tales, so Mille e una notte enraptures in an embrace of broad and complex notes, a flood of sweet, gentle tannins.

A big red to be enjoyed slowly, as it unfolds. The ideal companion for a game of chess - even twenty years from now.

Palazzo Filangeri di Cutò;
Mille e una Notte label

A history-making label. Mille e una Notte, a fine red The illustration Donnafugata chose for its Mille e una Notte is an interpretation designed by Gabriella Anca Rallo. Standing out from a midnight blue background is an ancient palace, classic in style but downplayed by "pop art" touches of color and an ultra-modern Alice blue palm tree. The building is Palazzo Filangeri di Cutò which in "The Leopard" is called the "Donnafugata palazzo" and is one of its key sites.

On this label, with refinement and a light touch, Gabriella blends the magic of The Leopard with the storytelling of "The Thousand and One Nights" where each image cites others in the most improbable and unexpected interplays.

And so under a starlit night full of promise begins a new organoleptic tale: that of Mille e una Notte, Donnafugata's superlative red.