Donnatà - Nero d'Avola

From the most important Sicilian red berry grape comes Donnatá, a complex wine with a strong personality, which fully expresses its terroir through an admirable balance and a surprising drinkability.

TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Soil type | hilly, clayey loamy soil

Altitude | 330-350 metres a.s.l.

Year of planting | 2000, 2006

Area of production | Contrada Mandranova and Contrada Torretta, agro di Camporeale (PA)

Training system | espalier with spurred cordon

Plants per hectare | 4.400

Yield per hectare | 80 quintals

Harvest time | second decade of September with manual harvest and selection of the bunches

Maceration | about 12 days, at controlled temperature

Alcoholic fermentation | 7 days at 23-26 °C in steel tanks

Malolactic fermentation | completely carried out in steel tanks with indigenous lactic bacteria

Ageing | 6 months in steel tanks, a small part of the mass for 6 months in 30 hl oak barrels

Bottle ageing | 10 months at controlled temperature (18 °C)

A family that has been involved in winemaking since the early 1900s, whose siblings Rosolino, Antonino and Natale, flanked by their children Anna, Benedetto and Benedetto, are the architects of a productive revolution centred on the vineyard and good winemaking practices, which has resulted in wines of great impact and structure, smooth, elegant and well-balanced.

Alessandro di Camporeale is a company where the new generations rediscover the pride of their own identity, sharing a production project that has solid roots in the history of this family. They are the three Alessandro cousins, the future of this winery which, with them, renews itself and looks to the third millennium with new passion and hope. From Anna, responsible for wine tourism and communication, to Benedetto, the oenologist who follows the entire production process, in the vineyard as well as in the cellar, to the other cousin, also Benedetto, responsible for marketing the family business. New human resources and new specialisations to continue, with confidence, a company history that has become the emblem of a wine-growing area of great value.