The Big Wine Chill
I catch myself often fretting over being served wines too warm for my liking, particularly in summer when dining open-air. Now don’t go thinking I’m an absolute wine purist, though. I readily admit that charts which give a degree by degree, wine by wine list of precise serving temperatures running to dozens of wines can […]
Delicata’s Eco-Friendly Bottles
These days, in a culture where nearly everything is disposable, the decision of whether or not to toss tradition into the garbage bin is an easy one for Malta’s foremost winery, Emmanuel Delicata Winemaker. The winery has been collecting its reusable wine bottles for generations and the l09-year-old, family-owned Maltese winery appeals more than […]
Robots and Precision Viticulture
Soon enough vignerons will be assisted by intelligent machines that autonomously roam their vineyards in similar fashion to the Mars Rover or Star Wars’ R2D2. Robots will measure the condition of the vines and grapes and tell the grower which vine needs special TLC. Today the use of robotics in viticulture may still be at […]
Climate Change and Maltese Wine
New research from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Harvard University has found that climate change has caused earlier grape harvests in France and other European countries over the last 30 years. Grapes in France are now being picked two weeks sooner on average than they were in the past. Each degree Celsius of […]
In a Delicata minute
Life in vineyards seems to roll on, year in year out, at Mother Nature’s slow and relaxed rythm that slip-slides behind the frantic speed in our cities and concrete jungles where time feels to tick us by in a New York minute, faster than anywhere else on Earth. Inconspicious to the eye of city dwellers, […]
