Wine and Vitello Tonnato Revisited
If you were to take a culinary snapshot of Malta, apart from wine, tuna and capers would be some of the most likely local ingredients centred in the crosshairs of your viewfinder. Prepared together with fresh veal, they would make for a vanguard Maltese surf-and-turf dish local fishermen and farmers, chefs and sommeliers, and all…
The Big Wine Chill
I catch myself often fretting over being served wines too warm for my liking, particularly in summer when dining open-air. Now don’t go thinking I’m an absolute wine purist, though. I readily admit that charts which give a degree by degree, wine by wine list of precise serving temperatures running to dozens of wines can…
Wine To Go With Truck Food
The democratisation of wine? We’re not quite there yet – wine is still more difficult to buy, and consume than it needs to be. My nose gets rubbed in it each time I take out lunch from one of the trendy mobile food trucks that park along the Ta’ Xbiex seafront. Burger & chips…
Lampuki and Wine Suggestions
The fish of many names, known as mahi-mahi, dorado, lampuga, rakingo, calitos, maverikos or dolphin fish, is fondly known in Malta as lampuka; and with the lampuki season well under way, we are entering that time of the month when the fish start to get bigger and traditional dishes like lampuki pie and aljotta will…
The Delicata 10-Mile Wine Experience at Vermell
Delicata’s next 10-Mile Wine Experience and Dinner showcasing their award-winning wines is set to take place at Vermell Bistro, at the water’s edge of Spinola Bay, St. Julian’s on Wednesday evening 30th April 2014. This event is the next one in a series of themed dinners prepared by some of the finest chefs on the Maltese…
