New Red Medina Ġellewża Release
After much hard work in the winery’s domaine of family-run vineyards and thanks to years of experience with the variety, Delicata has crafted another vintage red wine made entirely from Malta’s very own Ġellewża grape. The 2018 vintage will be released later this week behind the Medina label of quality wines of mono-varietals and blends. […]
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 […]
Desert Island Dessert Wine
Delicata has released small quantities of the 2017 vintage of the Malta-grown fortified sweet white Moscato in the Grand Vin de Hauteville selection. There’s something wondrously decadent in a little glass of this sweet and strong (16% vol.) liqueur wine. It’s eyeing bright and honey-coloured and has a nose of cinnamon and blood-orange rind. The […]
Brand New Medina Livery
For its 19th consecutive vintage, Delicata’s boutique range of Medina wines received a new livery that reflects its current standing as a premium quality brand. Don’t expect to see an outrageously different label, though. Already well-established as an award-winning collection of Maltese wines of distinction, the design changes are discreet. The packaging has been customised […]
Enter Bettija’rt – Delicata’s Art Contest
The Delicata winery has just launched Malta’s first barrel art contest christened Bettija’rt | wine.art.living with €1000 in prize money and other rewards to be earned. The inaugural edition is organised in association with Is-Suq Tal-Belt Valletta Food Market. Malta’s foremost winemaker is calling for painters and other visual artists to direct their creativity and […]