The resummed Drell-Yan cross section in the double-logarithmic approxi
mation suffers from infrared renormalons. Their presence was interpret
ed as an indication for non-perturbative corrections of order Lambda(Q
CD)/(Q(1 - z)). We find that, once soft gluon emission is accurately t
aken into account, the leading renormalon divergence is cancelled by h
igher-order perturbative contributions in the exponent of the resummed
cross section. From this evidence, ''higher twist'' corrections to th
e hard cross section in Drell-Yan production should intervene only at
order Lambda(QCD)(2)/(Q(2)(1 - z)(2)) in the entire perturbative domai
n Q(1 - z) > Lambda(QCD). We compare this result with hadronic event s
hape variables, comment on the potential universality of non-perturbat
ive corrections to resummed cross sections, and on possible implicatio
ns for phenomenology.