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Sicily's everyday white from Donnafugata: lemon peel, white peach and a salty edge, at 12.5% and no oak. It was the first wine the Rallo family made here, in 1983, and it still suits fried fish and a squeeze of lemon.
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Donnafugata ferments Anthilia in steel and keeps it away from wood, so what you smell is the fruit and nothing else. The acidity is high for a wine this light in alcohol, and you taste it as a clean lemony snap.
Lemon peel and white peach come first, with a soft floral lift behind them. Donnafugata never puts this wine near oak, so nothing sits between you and the fruit. Alfredo Ravanetti of the Italian site Wine Dharma also found yellow flowers and a light herbal edge.
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Wet stonesThe fruit is pear and peach, the notes Vivino drinkers name most often across 2,997 written reviews. Acidity is high for a wine of only 12.5%, so it stays tight and clean rather than soft. There is a light saltiness through the middle, which the Contessa Entellina hills give it: warm days, cool nights, grapes that keep their bite.
Short and clean, with a lemon snap at the end. It is built for a second glass, and Donnafugata says to drink it within three years.
Anthilia was the first wine the Rallo family made at Donnafugata, back in 1983, and it still tastes like a house white rather than a show wine. Crisp, lemony, faintly salty, and easy to finish.
Donnafugata's own shop in Sicily prices Anthilia at €10.50. In Britain the same bottle carries £2.87 of duty and 20% VAT before shipping and shop margin, and that is most of the gap. It is sold as a wine to open now, not to store.
It scores high for food and for ease, low for keeping. That is the wine Donnafugata set out to make: 12.5% alcohol, no wood, and fruit picked for drinkability rather than power.
No tannin, no oak, no puzzle: a clean lemony white that a first-time buyer will understand at once.
Goes with almost any light plate, and the acidity does real work on fried and salty food.
A weeknight bottle in every way except the UK price, which pushes it past a true everyday buy.
Good value near the bottom of its UK range, much less so at £20, given that Donnafugata sells it at home for €10.50.
Pleasant and well made, but an entry-level island white is not what most people open for a big occasion.
Made to drink young, with two months in tank and no wood, so there is nothing to gain by keeping it.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
A compact view of what the Sicilia denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
At Contessa Entellina the 2024 season brought 409 mm of rain against a normal 651 mm. Donnafugata pumped water from its own reservoirs to save the crop. In 2025 the rain came back and the summer stayed mild, so picking began on 28 July rather than a record-early 22 July.
A kind year in western Sicily. Rain fell through the season and the summer stayed mild, so Donnafugata started picking at Contessa Entellina on 28 July, later than the record-early 2024. Drink it now while the lemon and peach are fresh.
A drought year. Contessa Entellina saw 409 mm of rain against a normal 651 mm, and Donnafugata watered the vines from its own reservoirs. The crop was small but healthy. Drink it soon.
A kind year in western Sicily. Rain fell through the season and the summer stayed mild, so Donnafugata started picking at Contessa Entellina on 28 July, later than the record-early 2024. Drink it now while the lemon and peach are fresh.
Drink-now / hold guidance reflects general style cues for this wine, not a forecast for a specific bottle. Where vintage-level editorial notes exist, they appear above.
Sicilia went from a regional IGT label to a full DOC in 2011, and a white can come from any part of the island. At least half must be Catarratto, Inzolia, Grillo, Grecanico, Chardonnay, Viognier or Sauvignon. The crop limit is a generous 13 tonnes of grapes per hectare.
Italian wine law sorts bottles into a pyramid. DOCG sits at the top: tightly drawn boundaries, prescribed grapes, mandatory ageing, government tasting before release. DOC is the same idea with looser thresholds. IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) is broader still, requiring only that 85% of the grapes come from the named territory.
Sicilia is in the DOC tier. That is not a quality verdict, it is a description of how much freedom the producer has at vinification and ageing.
Sicilia falls within Sicily, covering Sicily: the whole island, from the Trapani coast in the west to the slopes of Etna in the east.
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Duty is £2.87 and VAT adds a fifth on top. On a £15 bottle that is about £5.37 gone before anyone pays for the wine, the shipping or the shop.
British shelves ask roughly £15 to £20 for the same 2025 bottle. Nearly all of the gap is tax, freight from Marsala and the retailer's margin, not the wine itself.
Two months in tank, about two months in bottle, and it ships. Money is not tied up for years, which is why a wine from a famous Sicilian name still lands under £20.
The Sicilia DOC rulebook lets a white take 13 tonnes of grapes per hectare, and Donnafugata picks 8 to 9. More wine from each field keeps the cost of every bottle down.
The Wine Society lists the empty bottle at 410 g. Donnafugata moved Anthilia into light Sicilian recycled-glass bottles from the 2023, which cuts what it costs to ship.
Rain there fell to 409 mm against a normal 651 mm, so the estate pumped from its own reservoirs. The crop came in under average, and a smaller crop costs more per bottle to make.
Dishes that go with this wine
Donnafugata's own advice is raw and fried fish, vegetable pies, fresh cheese and white meat. Vivino's wine experts suggest shellfish and starters. It all points one way: salt, lemon and light food.
The acidity scrubs the fat off hot batter and resets your mouth between bites. This is a lean, lemony Sicilian white built on Catarratto, so it does the job without adding weight of its own.
Try with: Fish and Chips · Arancini · Pizza Fritta · Salt and pepper squid · More pairings →
Oysters and raw fish need salt and citrus, not richness. Anthilia has both, and the faint salty edge in this dry Sicilia DOC white sits with shellfish the way a lemon wedge does.
Try with: Oysters · Sashimi · Impepata di cozze · Cozze arraganate · More pairings →
Swordfish with capers and olives is a strong, salty dish, and a soft wine disappears under it. This crisp Sicilian white has the acidity to answer back, and the same island flavours to match it.
Try with: Pesce spada alla Siciliana · Fregula ai frutti di mare · Baccalà Mantecato · More pairings →
Young mozzarella and ricotta are creamy but mild, so they need lift rather than power. The lemon and pear fruit of this dry Sicilian white cuts the cream and leaves the cheese tasting fresher.
Try with: Insalata Caprese · Torta pasqualina · Focaccia · More pairings →
Vitello tonnato is rich with tuna and mayonnaise, and it wants a wine with bite. At 12.5% this light Sicilian white keeps up without smothering the meat, and its citrus edge does what a squeeze of lemon does.
Try with: Vitello Tonnato · Cotoletta alla Milanese · Steamed sea bass · More pairings →
Heat strips the fruit out of a delicate white and leaves only the acid, which then tastes sharp. Save Anthilia for gentler plates, and pour a soft, juicy Frappato from the same island with anything hot.
Skip with: Pasta arrabbiata · Pizza Diavola · Goan fish curry · Pairing guide →
Donnafugata says to drink it within three years, and The Wine Society gives the 2025 until 2028. There is no oak and no long ageing to build on, so waiting gains nothing. Buy it for this summer.
Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
Aim for the cooler end on a warm day; warmer end opens up more aromatics.
Made to drink young, with two months in tank and no wood, so there is nothing to gain by keeping it.
£15.00 is the lowest tracked offer for the current vintage and we have no signal of further discounting.
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Confidence · HighDrawn from what drinkers consistently report on Vivino and Wine-Searcher, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic.
Confidence · MediumFrom the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.
Confidence · HighOur reading of the price, drawn from the disciplinare, public UK duty rates, and typical landed-cost benchmarks. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.
Confidence · MediumStyle guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.
Confidence · MediumLemon peel, white peach and pear, with a light salty edge and a clean, short finish. It is dry, fresh and only 12.5% alcohol. Donnafugata keeps it out of oak, so the fruit is what you get.
Fish, above all fried fish and raw fish. Donnafugata suggests mixed starters, vegetable pies, fresh cheese and white meat. Sicilian swordfish, mussels and arancini all work.
Mostly Catarratto, the white grape Sicily grows more of than any other, which Donnafugata calls by its local name Lucido. Small amounts of other white grapes are blended in. The Sicilia DOC rules ask for at least half from a named list, and Catarratto is on it.
Drink it within three years of the vintage, which is Donnafugata's own advice. The Wine Society gives the 2025 until 2028. There is no oak and no long ageing behind it, so there is nothing to wait for.
It sits at about £15 to £20 in Britain, against €10.50 in Donnafugata's own Sicilian shop. UK duty of £2.87 and 20% VAT explain most of that gap. At home in Sicily it is a supermarket bottle at €7 to €10.
Southwest Sicily, from Donnafugata's Contessa Entellina estate and nearby vineyards. The winery itself is in Marsala, on the west coast. Anthilia was the first wine the Rallo family made at Donnafugata, in 1983.
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