Delicata Ends Seven Weeks of Grape Pressing
Seven weeks ago to the day, we started the pressing of our 2015 harvested grapes with our hand-picked D.O.K. Malta Chardonnay, and 49 days later as the penultimate ‘big red’ D.O.K. Malta Cabernet Sauvignon grapes rolled into our winery, this year’s pressing has finally come to a close; but not before our last two grapes […]
Good ‘Old’ Sauvignon Blanc
Whereas older vintages of Chardonnay based wines won’t even raise an eyebrow amongst wine enthusiasts, mature, aged, Sauvignon Blanc’s have always been a contentious issue. Even famous Sauvignon’s like top of the range Sancerre and Pouilly Fume are not to everybody’s taste when aged , but there is little doubt that when they’re young […]
2015 Vermentino Pressed
Earlier this week here at the Delicata winery we pressed approximately 54,000 kilos of Vermentino, one of the last international white grapes to be picked in Malta from the 2015 harvest. This outstanding white grape variety is used in our award winning Classic Collection Landini Vermentino and in our Medina D.O.K. Malta range where we […]
We are all ‘In the Pink’ Here at Delicata
Last week the very first Malta grown red grapes hand harvested from the 2015 vintage rolled into the Delicata winery; not for red wine making, but for rose. Normally the Maltese Merlot and Tempranillo grapes would be harvested in a few weeks’ time, if our winemaker Matthew Delicata wanted to make a robust, concentrated, full […]
Delicata Customises New Refrigerated Fermentation Hall
The 2015 grape harvest began in spectacular fashion last week as we pressed the very first Chardonnay grapes, which were then passed through to our brand new, customised, refrigerated, white wine fermentation unit, which has just been constructed. Delicata can now proudly boast two fermentation halls. Our state-of-the-art Main fermentation hall with its ‘cathedral’ of […]
