Donnafugata - La Fuga Chardonnay Contessa Entellina | Italian White Wine

The white wine La Fuga produced with the Chardonnay grapes by Donnafugata cellar has a great character that releases in its essences all the cellar history. Donnafugata it’s a name which reminds the XIX century history when Maria Carlina the queen, wife of Ferdinand IV of the Bourbons escaped from Naples to these lands, after the Napoleon conquest.The grapes used for the production of the prestigious La Fuga wine are the Sicilia Contessa Entellina DOC Chardonnay used as single variety 100%. Later, the writer Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa in his Gattopardo masterpiece, indicated with the name of Donnafugata those countryside lands of the Salina Prince which received the escaping queen and that today are the location of the vines of the cellar.