Assovini Sicilia” is the association of Sicilian winemakers that brings together 98 wineries with the aim of promoting quality Sicilian wine in the world. What unites the members is the great love for Sicily and the awareness that the Sicilian territory and wine represent a unique value in the Italian and world wine scene. In “Assovini Sicilia” small, medium and large companies coexist and operate, regardless of their size. Each, with its own profile and entrepreneurial history, contributes to the achievement of certain common objectives and to strengthening the “Assovini Sicilia” brand, understood as a full expression and union of history, territories, vines, terroir. The association, founded in 1998 by Diego Planeta (Planeta), Giacomo Rallo (Donnafugata) and Lucio Tasca d’Almerita (Count Tasca d’Almerita), is now chaired by Laurent Bernard de la Gatinais (Rapitalà). In recent years, Sicilian wine has grown to reach the place it deserves on the world market, thanks also to the intervention and actions of Assovini Sicilia, which promoted and made the Sicilian territory known as a unique and varied “wine-growing continent”: from the vineyards of Pantelleria to those of Etna.