DOC Sweet

Pellegrino Nes Passito di Pantelleria DOC

Pellegrino Winery

Grape
Zibibbo
Denomination
Pantelleria DOC
Region
Sicily
ABV
14.5%
Drink
Now

Nes is Pellegrino's sweet Passito di Pantelleria, made from Zibibbo with raisins added to the fermenting must. Expect candied orange peel, dried apricot and honey. The 2024 won Gold with 96 points at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2026.

Price
£37.90

2024 · 50cl · checked 25 Oct · Delivery usually £16.90, free on 4 bottles

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£37.90 price · 1 retailer in stock · checked 25 Oct 2026

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Tasting Notes

Pellegrino Nes 2024: candied orange, dried apricot and honey

Nes means miracle, in Hebrew by Pellegrino's account. It is made from Zibibbo grown on Pantelleria's low bush vines, with raisins added to the fermenting must several times. The wine then rests ten months in steel tanks and is bottled at 14.5%.

Tasted by
ItalianWines editorial
Tasted on
18 October 2026
Vintage in glass
2024
Source
Drinker consensus · confidence Medium
Nose

Amber in the glass, the 2024 opens on candied orange peel and dried apricot. Hints of Mediterranean herbs come through behind the fruit. Honey and raisin sit underneath.

LemonLemon
Orange peelOrange peel
Orange blossomOrange blossom
ApricotApricot
FigFig
RaisinRaisin
HoneyHoney
Palate

Sweet and syrupy, yet never cloying: freshness balances the sugar. Marmalade, candied lemon peel and honey fill the mouth, with warmth from 14.5% alcohol. The 2024 grapes come from a drought year on Pantelleria and were picked healthy and well ripened.

Finish

Long and warm, with candied citrus and honey lingering after each sip. Before bottling it rests ten months in steel tanks, not wood.

Overall

Pellegrino's own page calls Nes 'the spearhead of the family production'. Drinkers rate it well across many vintages, picking out dried fruit, orange and honey, and the 2024 is ready to drink now.

Drink now
Live UK pricing

Buying Nes in the UK: one shop, about £38 for 50 cl

One shop on this page sells the 2024, at about £38 for a 50 cl bottle, so there is no price to compare here. About £8.60 of that price is UK duty and VAT.

Best price · 50 cl · 2024 £37.90 at Vino.com
50cl · 2024 available from Vino.com £37.90, in stock
Vintages live 2024 Current release: 2024
Per-litre (50cl · 2024 basis) £75.80 Lowest current 50cl · 2024 offer
Last checked 25 Oct 2026 Refreshed once every 24 hours
Wine fit score

Where Pellegrino Nes scores best: occasions and food

Its strongest cards are Best for an occasion and Best with food. Nes is a Gold-medal sweet wine for the cheese board or the dessert course.

Best for an occasion 8.2/10

A Gold-medal Passito di Pantelleria for the cheese board or pudding at a dinner party, or a gift for someone who loves sweet wine.

Best with food 7.2/10

Very sweet and full, so it belongs at the end of a meal, with blue cheese, ricotta tarts or chocolate cake. Its freshness keeps those matches from cloying, but it is no partner for a main course.

Best intro to this style 6.6/10

Sweet, fruity and easy to like, with orange and apricot flavours anyone can pick out. The price and the very sweet style make it a treat to share more than a first bottle to learn from.

Best value 6.2/10

About £38 for 50 cl of a 2024 that won Gold with 96 points at the Decanter World Wine Awards. Not cheap, and the bottle is small, but fair for a sweet wine of that standing.

Best for cellar 3.8/10

Rested ten months in steel tanks and sold young, the 2024 is ready to drink now. There is no need to keep it before opening.

Best everyday bottle 2.5/10

A sweet wine for the end of a meal, at about £38 for 50 cl. It suits a dinner party or a gift better than an ordinary weeknight.

Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.

Denomination Compliance Snapshot

Pantelleria in five fields

A compact view of what the Pantelleria denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.

Allowed grapes
1 varieties listed
This bottle: Zibibbo.
Minimum ageing
No statutory minimum
Producers release on their own schedule; 4 to 6 months in steel is typical.
Region / area
Trapani: the volcanic island of Pantelleria, closer to Tunisia than to Sicily
Source: Disciplinare.
Style
DOC · Pantelleria
Minimum ABV at this colour: 14.0%.
Classification
DOC (Denominazione di Origine Controllata)
What that means →
Vintages

Nes 2024 comes from a drought year on Pantelleria

Pantelleria was among the parts of Sicily worst hit by the 2024 drought, and its Zibibbo crop was estimated at about 40% below 2023. In most vineyards the grapes were picked about a week early, healthy and well ripened. The 2024 is ready to drink now.

2024 Current release
Best price
£37.90 50cl bottle
Retailers
1 in stock
ABV
14.5%
Window
Drink now

Pantelleria was among the parts of Sicily worst hit by the 2024 drought, with a Zibibbo crop estimated at about 40% below 2023. In most vineyards the grapes were picked about a week early, healthy and well ripened.

2024 Current release
Best price
£37.90 50cl bottle
Retailers
1 in stock
ABV
14.5%
Window
Drink now

Pantelleria was among the parts of Sicily worst hit by the 2024 drought, with a Zibibbo crop estimated at about 40% below 2023. In most vineyards the grapes were picked about a week early, healthy and well ripened.

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.

The disciplinare, the place, the label

Nes 2024: Gold and 96 points at the Decanter World Wine Awards

At the Decanter World Wine Awards 2026 the judges gave the 2024 Gold and 96 points. Their note lists 'orange blossom, marmalade, crystallised lemon rind and saffron honey'. Nes was first made in 1998, and the family's winery on the island dates from 1992.

01

DOC, DOCG, IGT: what the badges mean

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.

Pantelleria 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.

02

The denomination rules, in detail

  • Allowed grapes. 1 varieties listed in the disciplinare
  • Yield ceiling. 10.0 tonnes per hectare
  • Minimum ABV. 14.0% vol
  • Minimum ageing. No statutory minimum - producers release on their own schedule
  • Tasting panel. No mandatory pre-release tasting
03

Region and area context

Pantelleria falls within Sicily, covering Trapani: the volcanic island of Pantelleria, closer to Tunisia than to Sicily.

Pantelleria DOC zone Wine route in the zone

Made at Pellegrino Winery, Marsala.

Wine route in the zone: Strada del Vino Marsala e Pantelleria.

04

Reading the label

  • Pellegrino WineryProducer / estate
  • ZibibboGrape varieties
  • Pantelleria DOCGeographic indication and quality tier
  • 2024Vintage (year of harvest)
  • 14.5% vol · 50 clAlcohol by volume and bottle size
05

What sits behind the price of Passito di Pantelleria DOC Nes Pellegrino

Tracked from
£37.90
Direction
Mostly cost up
Drivers
5 up / 1 down
Main factor
Raisins added to the fermenting must, several times
  1. 01

    Raisins added to the fermenting must, several times

    Cost up

    Pellegrino adds raisins to the fermenting must several times. In 2019 it put the figure at 4 kg of raisins for every litre of wine, about 2 kg in each 50 cl bottle.

  2. 02

    Hand-picked Zibibbo from low bush vines on small island terraces

    Cost up

    Local growers pick the grapes by hand from Pantelleria's low bush vines, a way of farming on UNESCO's heritage list since 2014. They work bent low over small terraces walled with dry stone.

  3. 03

    A short 2024 crop after the drought

    Cost up

    Pantelleria was among the parts of Sicily worst hit by the 2024 drought, and the island's Zibibbo crop was estimated at about 40% below 2023. Less fruit to go round puts pressure on the price of the 2024.

  4. 04

    Gold and 96 points at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2026

    Cost up

    The 2024 won Gold with 96 points at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2026. A medal like that builds demand and supports the price.

  5. 05

    UK duty and VAT on a 50 cl bottle at 14.5%

    Cost up

    Of a £38.30 bottle, about £8.60 is tax: about £2.22 of UK duty on 50 cl at 14.5%, and about £6.38 of VAT.

  6. 06

    Ten months in steel tanks, then sold young

    Cost down

    Nes rests ten months in temperature-controlled steel tanks, not years in barrels, and goes on sale young. That keeps cellar costs down.

01

Raisins added to the fermenting must, several times

Cost up

Pellegrino adds raisins to the fermenting must several times. In 2019 it put the figure at 4 kg of raisins for every litre of wine, about 2 kg in each 50 cl bottle.

Perfect Pairings

Dishes that go with this wine

Pastiera napoletana on stoneware bowl with Butter, Candied Peel, Egg

Pastiera napoletana
Food Pairing

Blue cheese, ricotta tarts and Nes Passito di Pantelleria

Pellegrino pairs Nes with ricotta and chocolate desserts, such as Sicilian cassata or Sacher cake, and with blue or spicy cheeses. It is very sweet, so it can match a rich pudding without tasting thin.

Salt balance Strong match

Blue cheese, Stilton and sharp cheeses

The sweetness of Nes softens the salty, tangy bite of a blue cheese, the classic sweet-and-salty contrast. Pellegrino suggests blue and spicy cheeses with this Passito di Pantelleria, and a ripe Stilton works the same way.

Try with: Blue cheese · Stilton · Cheese board · Strong cheddar cheese

Sweet balance Strong match

Ricotta tarts, cheese pastries and custard

A pudding sweeter than its wine makes the wine taste thin. Nes is very sweet, so it holds up beside a ricotta tart or a cheesecake, and its freshness stops the pair from turning heavy. Ricotta desserts head Pellegrino's own list.

Try with: Pastiera napoletana · Seadas · Torta Della Nonna · Cheesecake · More pairings →

Aromatic bridge Good match

Panettone, Christmas pudding and honeyed pastries

The candied orange peel and dried apricot in Nes echo the candied peel and raisins in a festive cake, so wine and cake seem to share one flavour. With honey-soaked pastries, the wine's own honey notes do the same.

Try with: Panettone · Christmas Pudding · Cartellate

Body matching Good match

Chocolate cake and sticky puddings

A dense chocolate cake or a sticky toffee pudding needs a wine with real weight. Nes is full and syrupy, so it holds its own instead of tasting thin. Chocolate desserts such as Sacher cake are on Pellegrino's own list.

Try with: Chocolate cake · Sticky Toffee Pudding · Treacle Tart

Avoid Clash

Savoury main courses and sharp salads

Keep Nes for the cheese course or dessert. Beside a savoury main course its sugar swamps the food, and a salad in a sharp dressing makes this Passito di Pantelleria taste flat and cloying.

Skip with: Green salad · Grilled fish · Roast chicken · Tomato pasta · Pairing guide →

Drinking + cellar

When to open Nes 2024, and how to serve it

The 2024 is ready to drink now. Falstaff scored it 93 points in March 2026, noting its 'dancing acidity' and 'long finish'. Serve it lightly chilled, at 12 to 14°C.

Drinking window
2026 → ?

Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.

Decanting
Not needed

Pour it straight from the bottle.

Cellar potential
Low

Rested ten months in steel tanks and sold young, the 2024 is ready to drink now. There is no need to keep it before opening.

Buy now or wait?
Buy now

£37.90 for a 50cl bottle of the 2024, at Vino.com, is the best price we track, and we have no signal of further discounting.

Sources & trust

Sources behind this Pellegrino Nes page

Prices & stock

Read directly from each retailer’s public product page once a day. Last refresh: 25 Oct 2026, 03:57 BST. We do not hold stock and we do not accept payment for placement.

Confidence · High
Tasting notes

Drawn from what drinkers consistently report on Vivino, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic. Drinkers score it 4.1 out of 5 from 1,600 ratings on Vivino.

Confidence · Medium
Appellation rules & ageing

From the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.

Confidence · High
Why it costs what it costs

Our 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 · Medium
Drink window & cellar potential

Style guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.

Confidence · Medium
Related

Pellegrino Nes: Zibibbo, Pantelleria DOC and Sicily

Producer
Pellegrino Winery Sicily
Grapes
Zibibbo
Denomination
Pantelleria DOC
Region
Sicily Region guide
Cuisine
Italian Cuisine 1 dishes paired

Common Questions

Nes is a sweet, amber passito with candied orange peel, dried apricot and honey, plus a hint of Mediterranean herbs. It is rich and syrupy but never cloying, because a fresh streak balances the sugar.

Pellegrino makes Nes from Zibibbo grown on Pantelleria and adds raisins to the fermenting must several times. Grapes for drying are picked from mid-August and left to dry naturally. Grapes for fresh juice follow from late August to mid-September, and the wine then rests ten months in steel tanks.

Ricotta desserts and blue cheese are the best matches. Pellegrino suggests ricotta or chocolate desserts, such as Sicilian cassata or Sacher cake, and blue or spicy cheeses. A ripe Stilton works for the same reason: its salty bite sets off the wine's sweetness.

Yes. The 2024 won Gold with 96 points at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2026. It comes from a drought year on Pantelleria: the crop was estimated at about 40% below 2023, but the grapes were healthy and well ripened.

Vino.com sells the 2024, at about £38 for a 50 cl bottle. It is the one shop on this page, so there is no price to compare here.

Serve it lightly chilled, at 12 to 14°C, as Pellegrino advises. The 2024 is ready to drink now, so there is no need to keep it first.

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