Around Your Palate – Wine’s Vital Spark
In the appreciation of wine, it’s often difficult to convey the pleasure it gives us because we find it hard to analyse all the different sensations that make up the composite experience we call flavour. Perhaps it is worthwhile to explore how we identify taste to understand better what we like (and possibly dislike) in […]
Wine and Rabbit Pâté Revisited
Web browsing can be like beachcombing: you might stumble on something interesting but most likely it won’t be what you’re really after or need at that moment. Surfing the net for wine, especially, can feel like a desperate orienting pastime at best, leaving you hopelessly drowning in a virtual pool of labels you simply can’t […]
Delicata Diamond Award for Wembley Store
If the Wembley Store in Valletta could talk it would speak volumes. How many of us haven’t asked someone at some point to wait for them at this landmark corner right across from the old Royal Opera House and juxtaposed with the new parliament? For nearly a century, the building has been eavesdropping, as it […]
New Vintage Beginnings
Like the art of origami, winter pruning in the vineyard is a long, laborious practice: each snip of the secateurs as deliberate and precise as a paper fold, each cut as dedicated as the next to the creation of an amazing three-dimensional sculpture of a perfectly manicured vine. After midwinter, when the Maltese weather turns […]
New Releases for Christmas
While winemakers in frigid climes hope they don’t have to make excuses for Father Christmas arriving a day late as the 2015 ice wine grape harvest has first to be brought into the winery should the first frost hit, few wineries located in warm regions are already occupied with the release of their new wines […]
