Press Releases - Donnafugata

12/11/2008

Ben Ryè is Wine of the Year for the D’Agata and Comparini Guide

Ben Ryè is “Wine of the Year” according to the Guida ai Migliori Vini d’Italia – Italy’s Best Wines 2009 written by Ian D’Agata and Massimo Claudio Comparini and published by Guido Tommasi in a bilingual (Italian/English) edition.

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11/11/2008

Golosaria Awards Heroic Vine and Wine Women

Gabriella Anca Rallo of Donnafugata has won this prestigious prize. “Wine women are an important resource for this still a bit too masculine world. Handing down our passion to future generations”.

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10/11/2008

Donnafugata Day returns to the AIS in Rome

On December 6 at the Rome Cavalieri, tasting booths with all the winery’s labels and a special vertical tasting devoted to Chiarandà.

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12/09/2008

The Pantellerian Garden at Khamma

Donnafugata thereby intends to protect and promote Pantelleria agriculture

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06/08/2008

Excellent premises for the 2008 vintage

Donnafugata is about to begin its 2008 harvest at Contessa Entellina and on Pantelleria after a year of typically Sicilian weather. The vineyards are in excellent health, with all the right stuff for making wines that are big on personality and territoriality.

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06/08/2008

Donnafugata’s nighttime harvest: ten years of a passion for quality

On August 6 at Contessa Entellina Agriculture Minister Luca Zaia will cut the first bunch of Chardonnay

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02/07/2008

Calici di Stelle 2008 at Donnafugata

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.

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18/06/2008

MILLEANNI is the new extra-virgin oil from Donnafugata

From the constant striving for quality and attention to detail that has always distinguished Donnafugata wines now comes a new product: Milleanni, an extra-virgin oil blending olives from three indigenous cultivars – Biancolilla, Nocellara del Belice, Cerasuola – in the Belice Valley, in the heart of western Sicily

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20/05/2008

Josè Rallo of Donnafugata joins the board of the Banco di Sicilia Unicredit Group

The latest research shows Italy trailing in terms of women in top positions, while the Banco di Sicilia Unicredit Group is in the vanguard, rating as high as Scandinavia.

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27/04/2008

Cantine Aperte 2008 at Donnafugata

Sunday May 25, in its 15th edition, Open Cellars Day (“Cantine Aperte”) will be observed at the historical Donnafugata cellars at Via Lipari 18, Marsala

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26/03/2008

Wines and vintages presented at Vinitaly in Verona

Vinitaly remains the most important appointment of the year for engaging gears with the most demanding markets and wine-lovers. An event that everyone at Donnafugata lives with great passion. Donnafugata is proposing many novelties at its stand (Pavillon 2, position H-181/G-170).

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25/03/2008

A new underground barrique cellar and a new 50 Kw photovoltaic installation at Marsala

In the family’s historic winery at Marsala, dating to 1851, Donnafugata receives its visitors in a spacious courtyard dotted with citrus and olive trees typical of 19th century bagli (cellars)

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