Ben Ryé 2016: best sweet wine of Italy

With a score of 99/100 Ben Ryé 2016 Passito di Pantelleria conquers the top step of the podium as the Best sweet wine of Italy in Luca Maroni's Annuario dei Migliori Vini Italiani. Yesterday in Rome, in the striking setting of Salone delle Fontane, EUR, Antonio Rallo – winemaker of the family winery – received the prestigious recognition awarded to the Donnafugata icon wine. Luca Maroni's Guide has reviewed a total of 8,743 wines presented by 1,377 Italian wineries, evaluating their pleasantness from the point of view of the parameters of integrity, consistency and balance. “Excellent cleanliness achieved, wonderful freshness; Ben Ryé 2016 – Luca Maroni writes – is one of the best sweet wines of the year, among the richest and plushest ever. Chapeau!“ It is the second consecutive year that the Passito Ben Ryé has been proclaimed best sweet wine, rewarding the heroic viticulture of Pantelleria: the island of sun and wind, characterized by terraces and the agricultural practice of the alberello vine, UNESCO heritage. Ben Ryé – along with the other award-winning wines – can be tasted until Sunday in Rome, at Salone delle Fontane, as part of the kermis of the presentation of the Guide.