TANCREDI DOLCE&GABBANA e DONNAFUGATA 2019

Tancredi Dolce&Gabbana e Donnafugata 2019

With an intense ruby red color, Tancredi 2019 combines notes of ripe red fruit -black cherry and plums- followed by delicate spicy hints, cacao and sweet tobacco. On the palate it unfolds all its enveloping and plentiful personality with perfectly integrated tannins; it ends with a long and elegant persistence.

VARIETIES: Cabernet Sauvignon, Nero d’Avola, Tannat
REGION: Italy / Southern Italy / Terre Siciliane
AGEING: 12 months in oak and at least 3 years in bottle
GUARDING POTENTIAL: Enjoy now or will cellar well up to 8 years
SERVE: Serve at 16 – 18ºC
FITS TO: Tancredi goes well with red meat dishes and game; equally satisfying is the pairing with tuna or fatty fish. It can be uncorked on the spot if served in wide goblets with a wide mouth and good height
VIVINO: Average 4.2 ★★★★✰

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Tancredi | Range | DONNAFUGATA S.r.l. Società Agricola

The name Tancredi recalls one of the protagonists of the Leopard, an inexhaustible source of inspiration also for Dolce&Gabbana; in the novel and in the film of the same name, Tancredi is the favorite nephew of the Prince of Salina, precisely because of his charm and ability to adapt to changes. With a passionate and irrefutably Sicilian character, Tancredi was born in 1990 from an innovative blend for that era of a native grape variety with an international one. Dolce&Gabbana has created the coordinated image of this “revolutionary” wine, paying homage precisely to the Leopard, and in particular to the contrast between tradition and modernity that Tancredi summarizes in itself. While gold, blue and sinuous lines of Baroque inspiration celebrate the splendor of the aristocracy now in decline, red, green and the geometric figures refer to the new revolutionary values that are emerging in Sicily after the unification of Italy and which prelude to the contemporary history of the island.