Wines With Thai Food That Make You Smile

Wines With Thai Food That Make You Smile

Posted by on Apr 6, 2018 in The Winemaker's Journal | No Comments

Not everyone thinks of wine as a refreshing drink. In fact, the word ‘wine’ often evokes thoughts of a contemplative, dust-encrusted bottle that’s ritually uncorked, decanted and sipped from big round glasses, which of course it can be. But these wines aren’t the type of wines that usually team up very well with Thai food. […]

If Our Wines Were Athletes

If Our Wines Were Athletes

Posted by on Mar 23, 2018 in The Winemaker's Journal | No Comments

They would be heroes, if our Maltese and Gozitan wines were athletes. Imagine the victorious welcome they would get if they were medallists returning home after having stood next to some of the greatest players from the world’s biggest sporting countries on the highest podium of a grand champions cup, be that one of football, […]

Contemporary Cabernet Sauvignon

Contemporary Cabernet Sauvignon

Posted by on Mar 12, 2018 in The Winemaker's Journal | No Comments

While vino-fashionistas have thrown it off like an old winter coat, to most wine drinkers Cabernet Sauvignon is still that classic black dress that never goes out of style. Labels draped with names of other trendy, rare grape varieties get all the hype now. Yet let’s not forget: Cabernet Sauvignon is the world’s most planted […]

The Superior 2017 Maltese Vintage

The Superior 2017 Maltese Vintage

Posted by on Feb 23, 2018 in The Winemaker's Journal | No Comments

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 […]

Delicata Releases the First 2017 Vintage Medina Wines

Delicata Releases the First 2017 Vintage Medina Wines

Posted by on Feb 16, 2018 in The Winemaker's Journal | No Comments

The latest 2017 vintage of the Medina range of award-winning, boutique Malta-grown wines by the Delicata winery has been bottled for distribution on the domestic market in Malta and Gozo. Medina is a collection of ten unoaked, fruity wines made from hand-picked grapes. The range consists of four blends and six mono-varietals. The blends comprise […]