Donnas Grape Festival
The festival of the harvest and Donnas DOC wine, since 1956
About Donnas Grape Festival
The Donnas DOC wine festival
Every early October, the municipality of Donnas, in the lower Aosta Valley, celebrates the harvest with the Grape Festival, one of the most cherished food and wine festivals in the valley. The star is Donnas DOC, a red wine produced from Nebbiolo grapes grown on the typical pergolas that climb the mountain terraces, an expression of one of Italy's northernmost heroic viticulture.
A tradition dating back to 1956
Organized by the Pro Loco of Donnas, in collaboration with local cooperative wineries, the festival was founded in 1956 and has spanned decades of local history. It is traditionally held on the first Sunday of October, extending over the entire weekend with a program that combines conviviality, gastronomy, and agricultural traditions.
Tastings, dancing, and the Golden Bunch
The program includes street food and dancing evenings, a tasting dinner with dishes from Aosta Valley cuisine paired with local wines, and on Sunday, the vignerons' lunch open to all. The heart of the festival are the grape handover by the winemakers and the awarding of the Golden Bunch, an award for the best bunches. There is also a mass and a parade with the musical band.
The wine identity of the Aosta Valley
The Donnas Grape Festival is much more than a village festival: it is the moment when the community celebrates its bond with the land and wine, telling the wine identity of Donnas, in the province of Aosta, and of the entire Aosta Valley.
Donnas Grape Festival — edition 2026
For 2026, the Donnas Grape Festival returns on the first weekend of October, with the first Sunday of the month (October 4th) as the highlight. The formula combining street food and dancing evenings is renewed, with the tasting dinner on Saturday, and on Sunday the grape handover, mass, parade with the band, the vignerons' lunch, and the awarding of the Golden Bunch, in honor of Donnas DOC.
Programme Donnas Grape Festival 2026
The detailed program for the 2026 edition, with definitive times and prices, will be published by the Pro Loco of Donnas in the weeks preceding the event.
Based on recent editions, the festival is structured over the weekend as follows:
- Friday evening — Street food and dancing evening
- Saturday evening — Tasting dinner with aperitif in the vineyard and dishes from the lower Aosta Valley (reservation required), followed by a dancing evening
- Sunday — Grape handover by winemakers; mass; parade with the musical band; vignerons' lunch (reservation required); afternoon of celebration and, at the closing, award ceremony for the best grapes with the assignment of the Golden Bunch
Details and reservations on the official Pro Loco di Donnas page.
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Practical information — Donnas Grape Festival
How to get there
Donnas can be reached by car from the A5 motorway (Pont-Saint-Martin exit), in the lower Aosta Valley. By train to Pont-Saint-Martin station, a short distance away.
Reservations
The tasting dinner and the vignerons' lunch require reservations. Information and reservations through the Pro Loco of Donnas.
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