Press Releases

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.

Donnafugata thereby intends to protect and promote Pantelleria agriculture

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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).

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)