Press Releases

Donnafugata launches its social profiles. Informal and authentic, open to fan contributions to take wine culture worldwide

Donnafugata, Amorim Cork and CTS Viaggi teamed to recycle bottle corks.

Vinitaly is the occasion for tasting all of Donnafugata’s wines. Those on the market, the new vintages, the most award-winning, the great classics and the top of the range.

From GAP (Good Agricultural Practices) to ISO 22000 safe food certification: the environmental sustainability road continues

I Dolci di Giotto and Donnafugata. Two creators of excellence together in aid of social-benefit projects premiered at Taste 2012.

Humidity naturally accumulated by the soils, thanks to spring rain, together with drip irrigations focused on some vineyards have perfectly compensated the lower rainfall characterizing vintage 2011, rainier than normal, on average in Sicily.

Donnafugata’s Passito di Pantelleria gets honors from the most prestigious Italian and foreign wine guides, confirming itself as champion of heroic viticulture.

Donnafugata renews its cultural commitment to Normale di Pisa and finances the purchase of a drone for aerial photographs of archeological sites.The project will be presented during the ceremony conferring the “Giuseppe Nenci” Awards, on December 14.

Since 1989 Profilo Donna has been annually honoring 10 women of distinction in their fields. In the 2011 edition one of the award winners was José Rallo, co-owner of Donnafugata and the voice and visage of the Sicilian winery.

On Saturday, November 12, at its Marsala cellars, Donnafugata will be toasting the new vintage with a preview tasting of the 2011 mono-varietals. The single grape varieties will be the focus of an interactive sensory workshop with a blind tasting as final exam. Accompanying the new wines will be traditional autumn fare and a walk-about performance by the Musicanti.