Meet the winemaker at Delicata’s open day
Wine enthusiasts may want to begin their discovery of Maltese quality wines at the Delicata winery on September 21. The winery is opening its gates wide to the public from 10am to 4pm on the occasion of the Vintners’ Open Weekend organised by the Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Fisheries and Animal Rights. Making great wines…
Delicata for Good – the winery’s benevolent initiative
Purists will tell you that you should never mix anything with your wine. But why not put charity in the blend? Going above and beyond, Emmanuel Delicata Winemaker has launched the winery’s charitable initiative called ‘Delicata for Good’ with one vision in mind and that is to help build a better community by giving back.…
Defining vegan-friendly wine
Choosing a bottle of wine is great fun but not easy if you are following a vegan diet that not only excludes all nourishment that is animal-derived but even other food and drink because it has been processed making use of animal substances. The reason that not all wines are vegan-friendly has to do with…
The Labour of Green Pruning
A few weeks ago, I traded my office desk briefly for a shaded spot between Malta’s wonderfully green rows of blossoming vines and witnessed with great respect hard-working local grape growers green prune their vineyard. Although not always fully appreciated by lay persons, green pruning is a very important vineyard operation and an essential job…
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…
