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Donnafugata Brut
A metodo classico with surprising elegance
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Donnafugata Brut
Vintage 2011
Change vintageDonnafugata Brut 2011, bright straw yellow, confirms that it is a brut with great elegance. The nose opens with hints of bread crust and evolves into fragrant notes of citrus and white flowers. Surprising freshness and minerality on the palate: a long-limbed brut with fine and persistent perlage.
Denomination
VSQ Brut
Variety
Chardonnay, Pinot Nero
Production Area
Contessa Entellina estate and neighboring territories, South Western Sicily
Refinement
10 - 12 years
At the table
Pleasant for an aperitivo, excellent with finger food such as bottarga and basil bruschetta, tempura vegetables or cured meats. It perfectly accompanies first courses of fish and shellfish, delicious with seared scallops and fried fish.
Analytical data
Alcohol: 12.15Total acidity: 8.2pH: 3.12
At Contessa Entellina, where Donnafugata comes from
In the settings of the Gattopardo
In the heart of western Sicily - among the hills of Contessa Entellina, between 200 and 500 m a.s.l. - lie the vineyards Donnafugata comes from. The climate is Mediterranean, with rain concentrated during the autumn and winter months, dry and breezy summers, with a great range of air temperature variations between day and night. The soils are predominantly medium-clayey, but vary according to the peculiarities of the individual districts.
Sustainability at the service of quality
Sustainable management of agricultural activities
For over 30 years we have been pursuing environmental sustainability with a system of good practices: we do not use herbicides and chemical fertilizers and we minimize the use of pesticides. At the Contessa Entellina estate, we installed two photovoltaic systems in 2002 and 2008, in order to produce clean energy and reduce our emissions.
The study of native varieties
Biodiversity, an expression of an authentic Sicily
Since 2009, we have been committed to the protection and enhancement of Sicilian wine biodiversity thanks to an experimental vineyard with 19 native varieties including some heritage varieties, which have almost completely disappeared.
Donnafugata brut
An elegant woman, her face illuminated by a slight smile: how can we not think of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa or Lady with an Ermine? A perfect balance of the elements, of art, culture, nature. Compared to the very elegant original sketch, only a few touches of gold foil have been added in the perlage, like wedges of light that herald all the fine vitality of the contents.
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