Pantelleria Wineries and Wine Tours

Last updated: September 2026

Wine is the reason a lot of people come to Pantelleria, the volcanic island between Sicily and Tunisia. The grape is Zibibbo, also called Moscato d’Alessandria, and it is grown in a way you will not see anywhere else: each vine is trained low to the ground inside a hand-dug hollow, so the foliage sits below the wind. The practice is called alberello pantesco, and UNESCO inscribed it on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2014. Vinified sweet, from sun-dried grapes, Zibibbo becomes Passito di Pantelleria DOC. Vinified dry, it makes an aromatic, saline white that is the island’s everyday wine.

Nine producers are listed below, from the largest name on the island to one-family cellars that bottle a few thousand pieces a year. Where a winery publishes its own prices and opening times, you will find them here. Where it does not, we say so and point you at the estate instead of guessing — cellar-door terms on Pantelleria change with the season, and most of these are small operations.

• Donnafugata – Khamma Winery
• Marco De Bartoli – Bukkuram Estate
• Tenuta Coste Ghirlanda
• Abbazia San Giorgio
• Abraxas Winery
• Cantina Basile
• Salvatore Murana Vini
• Ferrandes
• Cantina Minardi

How do winery visits work in Pantelleria?

Almost every cellar on the island receives guests by appointment rather than as a walk-in tasting room, and most open only for part of the year. Book ahead by phone or email, especially in August. Two estates publish a full tasting programme with prices — Donnafugata and Marco De Bartoli — while the rest agree a time and a format with you directly.

The producers are scattered across the contrade, and the roads between them are narrow and slow. Plan two cellars in a day, not four, and nominate a driver before you start: there is no taxi rank waiting outside a vineyard at nine in the evening. If you would rather not drive, arrange a car or scooter in advance through PantelRent, or work out in advance what the island bus loop can and cannot do for you — the timetable is built around the working day, not around sunset tastings.

Wear closed shoes. The terraces are dry-stone and the ground is broken lava, which makes short work of espadrilles. Bring a light layer for evening tastings: when the maestrale gets up, the temperature drops quickly even in August.

Donnafugata – Khamma Winery

The most visitor-ready cellar on the island: five tasting formats at set times, each with its price published and bookable online. The winery sits in the Khamma district in a natural amphitheatre of vineyards on small terraces edged by dry-built lava stone walls. It is the home of Ben Ryé, the Passito di Pantelleria DOC that did more than any other bottle to make the island’s sweet wine famous outside Italy.

The building is worth the trip on its own. It is in two parts: the vinification block, faced in hand-cut lava stone, and the welcome area, called the palazzotto pantesco, with the vaulted ceilings typical of a dammuso and a view over the sea. Among the vineyards you can also see the Giardino Pantesco — a circular dry-stone wall built high enough to shelter a single centuries-old orange tree of the ancient Portugal variety, and a self-sufficient water system in its own right. Donnafugata restored it and donated it to FAI in 2008; it can be visited on your own during winery opening hours, picking up the information material at reception.

Tastings. Five formats run at set times, and reservations are required:

• Brunch Pantesco — 11:00, 75 min, €45. The island’s typical products alongside the wines.
• Volcanic Wines — 11:00 and 17:00, 60 min, €40.
• Iconic Wine Library — 17:00, 75 min, €55. Tuesdays and Saturdays only.
• #Donnafugatatime — 18:30, 75 min, €40. Outdoors.
• Ben Ryé sotto le stelle — 21:00, 120 min, €70. A gourmet tasting after dark.

The shop takes cash, bancomat and the major credit cards, and ships within Italy and Europe. Tours run in Italian and English. If you are coming over for the day, check the fast hydrofoil from Trapani against the tasting times before you book anything — the 21:00 slot does not combine with a same-day return.

• Address Contrada Khamma Fuori 6, 91017 Pantelleria (TP)
• Phone +39 0923 915 649
• Email [email protected]
• Website visit.donnafugata.it › Pantelleria
• Season 28 May – 30 September, Monday to Saturday
• Winery and shop hours 10:00–13:00 and 17:00–20:00; tours at 11:00, 17:00, 18:30 and 21:00
• Best for Ben Ryé at the source, the Giardino Pantesco, booking online without a phone call

Marco De Bartoli – Bukkuram Estate

Bukkuram, from the Arabic for “father of the vineyard”, is the name of the district Arab-era growers favoured for Zibibbo. The estate sits on the only south-west facing plateau on the island, roughly five hectares at 200 m above sea level, with the cellar housed in an eighteenth-century dammuso. The vines are trained in the UNESCO-listed alberello pantesco system.

Marco De Bartoli bottled his first passito here in 1984 and named it after the district. In 1989 he added a second wine from Zibibbo grown in the northern, shadier part of the island, at Cufurà, on three hectares of terraces at 350 m — higher acidity, less sugar, and the origin of Pietranera, the estate’s dry white. The Pantelleria range is Pietranera, Integer Zibibbo, and the two passiti, Bukkuram Padre della Vigna and Bukkuram Sole d’Agosto. The Italian Slow Wine guide gave the cellars its “snail” symbol in every edition from 2014 to 2020.

Visits. Guided tours last about an hour and a half and are by reservation only, at a time agreed with the staff. The tour covers the production of both the dry and the sweet wines, from the vineyard through the cellar, and ends with a technical tasting of four wines. Tours are available in English. Book on +39 0923 962093 Monday to Friday, by email, or through the form on the estate’s website; the estate publishes its Bukkuram tasting list there too. The reservation only counts once you have the confirmation email back.

Two things catch people out. The Pantelleria estate closes for the winter — not “by appointment” in winter, closed — so this is a late spring to autumn visit. And availability is tight from April to October, so do not count on booking a tasting for the same day. The estate is a short drive from the trailhead for the Zighidi – Sauna – Favare Loop if you want to make a morning of it before an afternoon tasting.

• Address Contrada Bukkuram 9, 91017 Pantelleria (TP)
• Phone +39 0923 918 344 (estate) · +39 0923 962 093 (bookings, Mon–Fri)
• Email [email protected]
• Website marcodebartoli.com › Bukkuram
• Opening Every day except Sundays and holidays, for a few months a year; tours Monday to Saturday, reservation only. Closed in winter
• Best for the estate that started Pantelleria’s passito revival, a proper technical tasting

Tenuta Coste Ghirlanda

Coste Ghirlanda is spread over three properties rather than one. The Coste Ghirlanda estate itself lies in a valley in the centre of the island, on the edge of the Plain of Ghirlanda, where the ground slopes gently upwards — hence the name. It runs to roughly sixty thousand square metres of terraced Zibibbo bush vines, around ten thousand of them, plus fruit and citrus trees, including an orange grove sheltered by a traditional Pantellerian dry-stone garden.

The Montagnole estate faces east inside a nature reserve, about a hundred and fifty thousand square metres of vineyard sloping to the sea with thirteen old dammusi in and around it, and some twenty-five thousand vines alongside capers, olives and fruit trees. The Nikà estate, in the south-west, is fifty thousand square metres of Mediterranean scrub, low olive trees and small terraced vineyards looking towards Tunisia. At the centre of the Coste estate is the wine laboratory, with a sales outlet for the wines and the estate’s preserves.

Visits and L’Officina. The estate’s tasting space, L’Officina – Tenuta Coste Ghirlanda, is a private lounge looking over the Plain of Ghirlanda where you taste the wines with a selection of the estate’s own products, matched to the wines as the evening goes. It also hosts dinners, celebrations and weddings. Neither tasting prices nor fixed opening hours are published — contact the estate to agree a time and a format. Coste Ghirlanda also lets three restored dammusi on its land, sleeping two to four guests each.

The estate is inland and central, which makes it easy to pair with the east coast: the Arco dell’Elefante is a short drive away for a swim before a late-afternoon tasting.

• Address Piana di Ghirlanda, 91017 Pantelleria (TP)
• Phone +39 333 391 3695 · +39 0923 187 5997
• Email [email protected]
• Website costeghirlanda.it
• Visits On request. Tasting prices and opening hours are not published — ask when you book
• Best for an evening at L’Officina, events and weddings, staying on the estate

Abbazia San Giorgio

The natural-wine address on the island. Abbazia San Giorgio was set up in 2015 by Battista Belvisi, Beppe Fontana and Pina Passarello, starting at four thousand bottles a year and now making around twenty thousand. Farming is biodynamic across seven hectares, and the varieties go well beyond Zibibbo: Catarratto, Nerello Mascalese, Pignatello and Alicante are all planted. Winemaking uses indigenous yeasts and no additives.

Visits. Tastings are held at the estate’s old dammuso at Muéggen and are booked through the form on the website. The winery does not publish prices or opening hours, so treat the booking form as the start of a conversation rather than a checkout. This is a small operation and Belvisi is often the person who shows you round, which is the reason to come: you get the thinking behind the wines first-hand, not a script.

If you are putting together a picnic afterwards, note that Specchio di Venere is protected by a municipal ordinance and there is nothing at all at the shore — no kiosk, no shade, nothing sold. Balata dei Turchi is the same. Bring what you need with you, including water.

• Where Tastings at the dammuso of Muéggen, Pantelleria (TP). No street address published
• Phone +39 338 596 4542
• Email [email protected] · [email protected]
• Website abbaziasangiorgio.com
• Visits By booking, through the website form. Prices and hours not published
• Best for biodynamic and natural wine, tiny production, meeting the winemaker

Abraxas Winery

The biggest vineyard holding on Pantelleria and the highest cellar. Abraxas farms more than thirty hectares — the largest area of any winery on the island — and its cellar stands at around 600 m on the slopes of Montagna Grande, built in the traditional Pantellerian way. The estate is run by the Scudieri family under their Tenute Scudieri project, through the agricultural company Prosit.

What makes Abraxas unusual is the spread of altitudes and grapes. Zibibbo grows down at Bukkuram, close to the sea on the side of the island that faces Africa, in the classic alberello pantesco training. Up on the heights of Vipera and Randazzo, at around 600 m, the plantings are international and mainland Sicilian: Nero d’Avola, Nerello Mascalese, Syrah, Cabernet Franc, Grenache, Carignano, Malbec, Mondese, Petit Manseng, Gros Manseng, Merlot and Viognier. Everything from growing to bottling happens on the island. The range includes the reds Vipera, Oxalis and Sabj, the whites Alsine and Reseda, and the sweet wines Don Achille and Sentivento.

Visits. The estate offers guided visits and vineyard experiences — a walk through the rows, the growing and winemaking methods, the cellar, and a tasting with island food. There are also several dammusi on the estate dating from the nineteenth century, kept in their original architecture and let to guests. No prices or opening hours are published; write to the estate. From up here the walk down to Montagna Grande’s hiking trail is the obvious pairing, and Cala Levante is the coastal stop most people combine with a visit.

• Address Contrada Kuddia Randazzo, 91017 Pantelleria (TP)
• Email [email protected]
• Website abraxaspantelleria.it
• Visits Guided visits and vineyard experiences on request. No phone, prices or hours published
• Best for range beyond Zibibbo, the highest cellar on the island, staying in an estate dammuso

Cantina Basile

A small family cellar in the heart of Contrada Bukkuram, working Zibibbo trained in the traditional low bush form. Of all the producers on this page, Basile is the easiest to actually get into: for summer 2026 the winery runs tastings every afternoon from 17:00 until around 20:00, every day except Sunday. The tasting covers the whites, the reds and the passiti, served with a spread of local snacks, and the welcome is informal rather than staged.

The range is bottled under names worth knowing before you arrive: Sora Luna, Shamira, Shamira non Shamira, Frate Sole, Ginestra, Sciusciu, Filari 41, Prescelto, 37° Parallelo and Trequartidiluna. The winery sells online as well, with bottle prices published on its own shop and free shipping over €150, so you can see what you are getting into before the tasting rather than after it.

Booking is still the right move, through the contact form or by phone. The cellar is in the same district as Marco De Bartoli, which makes the two straightforward to combine in an afternoon and an evening — one tour, one tasting, one designated driver. Afterwards, the sulphur pools at Sataria Cave are a reasonable way to finish the day on that side of the island.

• Address Contrada Bukkuram, 91017 Pantelleria (TP)
• Phone +39 333 659 2553
• Email [email protected]
• Website cantinabasile.it
• Tastings Summer 2026: every afternoon 17:00–20:00 approx., closed Sunday. Tasting price not published — ask when booking
• Best for an afternoon tasting without a long lead time, buying online afterwards

Salvatore Murana Vini

Six generations of one family growing and vinifying Zibibbo on Pantelleria. In the 1970s the young Salvatore Murana became the first of them to put a family name on the label and sell beyond the island, and the recognition followed quickly: Creato, Martingana and Mueggen are among the passiti that made the island’s reputation with sommeliers abroad.

The house principle is that the wine should carry the place: the whole production chain stays on Pantelleria, bottles, cartons and corks included. It is a small operation with a shop on its website and no published visitor programme, so a visit is something you arrange directly by phone or email rather than book online. Note the phone line does not take WhatsApp — call it or write.

The cellar is up at Mueggen, inland on the southern side of the island, near where Ferrandes works. If you want to stay close by, Dammusi Sciuvechi Resort is one option on that side, and a boat trip with La Rosa dei Venti boat tours makes a good contrast to a day spent inland. Cala Gadir is the swim on that stretch of coast.

• Address Salita Mueggen 11, 91017 Pantelleria (TP)
• Phone +39 339 147 8607 (no WhatsApp)
• Email [email protected]
• Website vinimurana.it
• Visits By arrangement. No published tour programme, prices or hours
• Best for single-cru passito, six generations of island winemaking, buying direct

Ferrandes

One of the island’s smallest and most sought-after passito producers, and the hardest to visit. Salvatore Ferrandes runs a small family holding at Contrada Mueggen, farming terraced land organically. The family is of Spanish origin and has been on Pantelleria for more than six hundred years, working capers, raisins and vines on the same terraces.

The output is capers, dried grapes and Passito di Pantelleria, all in very small quantities and all made by hand. This is not a visitor centre and there is no tasting room: the estate’s own website is still under construction and publishes nothing beyond a phone number and an email. Call ahead if you want to buy, and expect a quiet, private welcome rather than a tour. If a producer on this page is going to be sold out, it is this one.

• Address Contrada Mueggen, Pantelleria (TP)
• Phone +39 328 900 8813
• Email [email protected]
• Website passitodipantelleriaferrandes.com
• Visits By appointment only, and not as a tasting room. Nothing published on prices or hours
• Best for passito purists and collectors, capers and raisins from the same terraces

Cantina Minardi

A family cellar working on Pantelleria since 1940, and the most conveniently placed of the group: the winery is on Via Campobello, on the northern side of the island, and there is a separate retail outlet on Via G. Falcone. If your time on Pantelleria is short and you want to taste and buy without committing an afternoon to the drive, Minardi is the practical answer.

Alongside the wines the cellar sells the island’s other produce — capers, preserves, sweet things — and runs an online shop with prices listed, plus gift packaging. It also puts on events through the season. There is no fixed tour programme published: phone the cellar, or Francesca on the mobile number, and arrange a time.

The location makes it easy to combine with the north of the island. The Gelfiser Lava-Flow Path is on that side, and afterwards you are a short drive from town, where Alchimia Café is one of the places to finish the evening. For dinner, Il Cappero and Scruscio are both on the restaurants page, and Trattoria da Pina if you want something plainer.

• Cellar Via Campobello 85, 91017 Pantelleria (TP)
• Shop Via G. Falcone 3, Pantelleria
• Phone +39 0923 911 160 (cellar) · +39 333 138 6836 (Francesca)
• Email [email protected]
• Website viniminardi.it
• Visits By arrangement. No published tour times or tasting prices; wine prices are on the online shop
• Best for buying without a long drive, island produce alongside the wine, gift boxes