01Essence
The name comes from a Sicilian word for a woman who is sharp, clever, and impossible to hold back.
Wine is meant to be shared. The bottle is simply the beginning of the experience — the table is where everything happens.
Malendrina brings together Sicilian and Palestinian traditions through wine, food, and hospitality — warm, soulful, sophisticated without pretension, with a quiet wink of mischief.
02Palette
Warm candlelight and Mediterranean earth — terracotta, olive, brass, deep wine. No bright colors, no stark white.
03Typography
A modern-classic pairing: elegant serif headlines over a clean, humanist sans. The script wordmark stays reserved for the logo.
Display SerifCormorant Garamond
Pull up a chair
Aa Bb Cc 0123 regular · medium · italic
Text SerifSpectral
A friend's home
Aa Bb Cc 0123 for long-form story copy
Roman DisplayMarcellus
MALENDRINA
Aa Bb Cc · for evening / dramatic moments
Body SansMulish / Hanken Grotesk
Everyone should feel welcomed, comfortable, and at home — knowledgeable, never pretentious.
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05Tarot Illustration
Hand-drawn cards — The Sun, The Star, Two of Cups — used as accents: dividers, watermarks, texture. Four treatments.

Pencil line · ink on ivory

Brass line on charcoal

Cream on terracotta

Watermark · faint olive