Grappa Nonino supports

The great Persian poet Attar said ‘if the entire world were destroyed we should not lose hope, we should only think of the secret of the raindrop’. […] I feel at the Nonino Prize a miraculous meeting is taking place, in this land where over a century ago the first grappa drop came out. The Prize does not have any formal aspect; every year there is a research to convince the people chosen to come here – with a deeper and deeper bond with all the work that takes place here – and to honor, in all the different categories, the deep research of humanity.

Peter Brook

Ronchi di Percoto • 31^st January 2015
Nonino Prize “Master of our time” 1991 and since 1992 member of the Jury of the Prize

In 1975 searching for the ancient autochthonous Friulian vine varieties to distill their pomace, the Noninos discover that the most representative of them – Schioppettino, Pignolo and Tazzelenghe – are dying out, as their growing is forbidden. These varieties are joined by Ribolla Gialla. On November 29th with the aim of “stimulating, awarding and having the ancient autochthonous Friulian vine varieties officially acknowledged”, and so preserving the biodiversity of the territory, they create the Nonino Risit D’Aur Prize and a scholarship to award the best study, both technical and historical, concerning the above-mentioned vine varieties.

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The Manos Blancas Chorus of Friuli, founded in 2010 by the Nonino family in honor of Claudio Abbado and supported by the Nonino Distillatori, is the first Manos Blancas chorus born outside from Venezuela. The story of the Manos Blancas Chorus starts in 1999 in Venezuela by means of Naybeth Garcia and Johnny Gomez, teachers and assistants at the music school of Maestro José Antonio Abreu: theirs is the idea of applying the “El Sistema” method to children affected by cognitive and sensorial disabilities.

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Grappa Nonino supports P(OUR) the no-profit organization of the bartender community with thirst of knowledge
Grappa Nonino supports P(OUR), the international charitable project created by Alex Kratena, Simone Caporale, Monica Berg, Xavier Padovani, JimMeehan, Joerg Meyer, Ryan Chetiyawardana, whose aim is creating a global community of bartenders, barmen, sommelier, brewers, distillers and wine producers which can stimulate and reinvent the beverage world through new ideas, knowledge, inspirations, experiences and values.
P(OUR) = OUR + PURE. Our community, Our industry, Our responsibility, Pure honest, Pure reliable, Pure Uncorrupted. Sustainability, growth and knowledge are essential elements of the very identity of P(OUR).