BETTIJA’RT – Vote for Your Favourite Bettija’rt
Which bettija’rt is your absolute favourite? Cast your vote by clicking next to its title and then the vote button at the bottom. * Their photos cannot do justice to the art works themselves. Appreciate the artists’ bettija’rts by viewing them at the exhibition venue. “Secret Garden”, Claire Attard Vella “Meditrina […]
Time for a dash of Mourvèdre
Since the mid-1990s a spirit of change has spread through Malta’s vineyards and wineries. Little did we know then that the first modern-styled bottles that rolled out would go on to foster today’s enthusiasm for Malta’s wines. At the time of Malta’s accession to the EU in 2004, people still talked about discovering wines from […]
Out with the old wood, in with the new wine
“Out with the old”, so it goes! Snip by snip, grape growers start trimming back last year’s wilted wood of dormant vines, stripped of their leaves by the wind and donning only bare cane shoots in their skimpy canopies. Like winemaking, this wood-clipping act is an interplay of reasoning, experience and knowledge that will determine […]
Good Tidings for Malta’s Wine Grape Harvest
The lush green canopies of grape vines are ready to yield their sweet bounty. Harvest time is here. Out in the vineyards, the smell of ripe grapes is all around. Families and friends come together, as they have done for thousands of years, ready to pick this most precious ancient fruit. At the wineries, cellar […]
The Superior 2017 Maltese Vintage
A term that’s likely to appear on quite a few Maltese wines of the latest 2017 vintage, which yielded a small but concentrated grape crop, and warrants attention is ‘superior’. Superior is one of several so-called ‘special mentions’ which a Malta-grown wine released for consumption may bear on its label subject to complying with strict […]
