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 […]
Gold and Bronze for Delicata’s Topflight White Wines
Their passion and craftsmanship earned Delicata, Malta’s most-awarded family of winemakers, two prestigious medals at The 2017 Challenge International du Vin in Bordeaux, France, which is probably the longest running major international wine competition. Delicata’s Gran Cavalier Chardonnay won Gold whereas their Grand Vin de Hauteville Viognier earned a well-deserved Bronze. The two Delicata wines […]
The Sweet Perfume of Wine to Come
If there’s one scent as delightful as that of fine wine itself, it must be the delicate perfume of vines in bloom, a rarity offering respite from congested city life. Oddly enough, it’s a smell the vine plant doesn’t need to emit for any practical reason. Yet it’s potent enough to make anyone with a […]
Anticipation for Gran Cavalier Sauvignon Blanc
Anticipation for the market release of Delicata’s Gran Cavalier Sauvignon Blanc D.O.K. Malta of the latest 2016 vintage is heightening. This quality Maltese wine has found a steady following locally by lovers of aromatic white wines and become sought-after by our restaurateurs. Especially discerning foreign scouting organisers of hospitality events seem to want to secure […]
Our Wine’s Niceties & Scarcities
Once a winemaker found himself in the awkward position of being reproved whilst dining out by the patron-chef because his winery had run out of stock of one of the best-selling wines on the restaurant’s carefully curated list. To this the winemaker graciously replied with the question why the catch of the day didn’t include […]
