The stars of the evening were wines to be drunk and listened to together with Josè Rallo for Donnafugata: “a feast for the senses”, the latest event of the ‘Donnafugata Music&Wine’ project. The face and voice of the Sicilian company flew to Canada, and yesterday took the stage of The University Club in Toronto for a new musical tasting of small, prestigious productions in front of an audience of enthusiasts and collectors. With her were her husband Vincenzo Favara on percussion and Diego Spitaleri on piano, once again together for a multisensory experience of jazz and Brazilian melodies.
Each wine was accompanied by a song, whose rhythmic progression was supported by tasting sensations: the Donnafugata sparkling wine kicked off the musical stories. In a crescendo of aromas on the historic University Avenue, the classic method gave way to Etna labels, an expressions of volcano and mountain viticulture; earthiness and elegance filled the glasses of the diners to the notes of the hypnotic Pelas Tabelas and then of Sicily, a song by Chick Corea that Pino Daniele lovingly dedicated to Sicily.
Instead, the ‘An older man is like an elegant wine’ ballad was the musical background to the tasting of Mille e una Notte, Donnafugata’s iconic red. Directly from the hills of Contessa Entellina, some of the best vintages of the historical reserve of a wine distinguished for its extraordinary longevity were featured. The event closed on a sweet note with the passito Ben Ryè, the symbol of the heroic viticulture from Pantelleria, paired with Branquinha by Caetano Veloso.
“Donnafugata: a feast for the senses” was a special evening promoted by the Canadian Liquor Control Board of Ontario and by Univins, which have recognized Donnafugata Music&Wine as an extraordinary model of communication of Made In Italy wine excellence. Over the years Josè Rallo has, in fact, been the leading voice of other concert-events around the world, and in the wake of this success, she has also performed in Beijing, Shanghai, at the Blue Note in New York and at the Acropolis Museum in Athens.
