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August 10th will be a magical, memorable night for “Goblets Full of Stars” (“Calici di Stelle”) the traditional summer Wine Tourism Movement event that every year brings hundreds of visitors to Donnafugata Estate at the 60 kilometer stone on the Palermo-Sciacca limited-access Highway S.S. 624.

For the fourth time in nine editions, the Passito di Pantelleria Ben Ryé ranked highest at the international Wine Cities competition

In the course of the prestigious wine competition "Concours Mondial of Bruxelles" Chiarandà 2007 has been awarded with the Gold Medal. A significant confirmation of the excellence of this white wine, flagship of the Donnafugata production.

Cantine Aperte, or Open Cellars, one of the most intriguing events in the Italian wine world, will be held at Donnafugata once again. On Sunday, May 30 the Sicilian winery will open its historic Marsala cellars to wine-lovers, renewing its contribution to the growing wine tourism trend.

In honor of this wine, so representative of Italian enology, the Verona Fair Board has decided that at Vinitaly Ben Ryé will be the star of one of the “Taste and Dream” events.

From Vinitaly 2009 to 2010 a year of memorable work and events

Satisfaction at Donnafugata: a felicitously Sicilian year that will give life to wines fully expressing the territory

The award ceremony held on March 20 in the Cinquecento room of Palazzo Vecchio

Record visits to the Sicilian winery. Tailored tours and foreign languages behind a success that also involves the territory.

Selected as sole representative of Italian sweet wines, Donnafugata’s Ben Ryé went for the “Grands Vins Liquoreux du Monde” tasting organized by DUAD (Diplome Universitaire d’Aptitude à la Degustation) of Bordeaux (France).