Delicata Classic Wine Festival returns in 2022
Mark your calendars because the Delicata Classic Wine Festival aims to return in August 2022. After two enforced fallow years for what is known as Malta’s grandest wine happening, the Delicata Classic Wine Festival is scheduled to return with a bang in 2022. The provisional dates to pencil in your diary are 13 and 14 […]
Top Wine and Dine Collaboration on Saqqajja Hill
Five of the finest chefs on the Maltese Islands, in association with Malta’s most-awarded winery, Emmanuel Delicata Winemaker, are teaming up for an intimate alfresco wine and dine experience. On the evening of the 30th of June, the day after L-Imnarija, five adjacent restaurants on it-Telgħa tas-Saqqajja (Saqqajja Hill) in Rabat will be serving one […]
Maltese summer fruits and wine
I don’t fancy eating a proper dessert at the end of a meal. Don’t get me wrong, I love sweets but rather enjoy them later, as a special indulgence consumed on its own and never taken for granted. But I like the idea of concluding lunch or dinner with a piece of fresh fruit, like […]
Cracking bottles and eggs
White wine is to a winemaker what the egg, one of the most finicky but essential staples of cooking, is to a chef: a telling gauge of ability and skill. Making white wine is easy but hard to master. Requiring a delicate touch, an exact sense of timing and an almost intuitive feel, many winemakers […]
Chardonnay for Christmas
What if you could choose only one wine to go with your traditional Christmas meal: which one would you pick? I’d say let’s hear it for rich, ripe and rounded whites and, as I remind myself each year, Chardonnay is really all you need. Often ignored at Christmas time, Chardonnay can be such an enchanting […]
