Press Releases - Donnafugata

11/12/2009

20th Anniversary of Ben Ryé, the sweet wine loved worldwide

To celebrate the 20th harvest of Ben Ryé, Donnafugata is launching a new art label.

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09/12/2009

The quality of the 2009 vintage

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

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08/12/2009

“A Way to Sicily” and “Change for Growth”

In 2009 the UniCredit Territorial Committee for Sicily, headed by José Rallo, co-owner of Donnafugata, created two important projects designed to promote territorial development.

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13/10/2009

The Donnafugata “ Giuseppe Nenci ” Prize once again bestowed

On October 15 Gibellina will host the ceremony, ten years after the death of the great Italian archeologist.

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25/09/2009

Donnafugata’s latest awards

Donnafugata wines reaped many honors recently. The POLENA 2008 (from Catarratto and Viognier grapes) won the GOLD MEDAL at Germany’s Mundus Vini competition (www.mundusvini.de).

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23/09/2009

Here it is Chiarandà 2007

Since 1992, year of its birth, Chiarandà has always been Donnafugata’s top white wine, the best expression of Contessa Entellina’s winemaking heritage

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02/09/2009

Minister Zaia for heroic viticulture

On Pantelleria, the man in charge of farming policy for the Italian Government spoke at the meeting organized in collaboration with Donnafugata and the CERVIM

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02/09/2009

Zaia: wine and driving, the list of questions nobody asks

“You can drink and drive. Just obey the law. Why, instead of demonizing wine, don’t the self-appointed moralizers say that among the main causes of road accidents are violations of the highway code, speeding, tiredness and distraction, often caused by cell phone use and smoking, along with overmedication? We remind those now pointing the finger at wineries that it’s above all hard drugs and liquor, sold even in supermarkets and the nightspots so quickly defended two years ago, that get people high and make them lose control”.

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02/09/2009

The Commitment of Donnafugata on Pantelleria

The speech of José Rallo held at Pantelleria on September 2, on the occasion of the meeting organized by the Cervim and the Minister for Agriculture about “Heroic viticulture on mountains and smaller islands: a resource that generates revenue and protects the landscape.”

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06/08/2009

Beneath Sicilian stars, the nighttime harvest returns.

THE CHARDONNAY GRAPES ARE RIPE FOR PICKING ON AUGUST 10TH. THE ALLURE OF NOCTURNAL HARVESTING WILL MAKE “CALICI DI STELLE” 2009 EXTRAORDINARY AND UNIQUE.

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15/06/2009

Italian mayors choose Donnafugata’s Ben Ryé 2007

Italian mayors are raising toasts to the 2007 Ben Ryé, the Passito di Pantelleria which Donnafugata produces has won the Gran Medaglia d’Oro (Grand Gold Medal) in the Selezione del Sindaco (Mayor’s Choice) international Wine Cities competition whose 2009 edition was just held in S. Michele All’Adige.

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06/05/2009

Corporate social responsibility: the educational “Change for Growth” project

Just ended in Palermo was the first edition of the educational “Change for Growth” project addressed to small Sicilian companies and created through cooperation between the Banco di Sicilia (UniCredit Group) and the UniCredit Territorial Committee for Sicily headed by José Rallo.

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