Wine and Rabbit Pâté Revisited

Wine and Rabbit Pâté Revisited

Posted by on Feb 5, 2016 in Releases, The Winemaker's Journal | No Comments

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

Delicata Diamond Award for Wembley Store

Posted by on Jan 22, 2016 in Releases, The Winemaker's Journal | No Comments

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

New Vintage Beginnings

Posted by on Jan 15, 2016 in Releases, The Winemaker's Journal | No Comments

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

New Releases for Christmas

Posted by on Dec 21, 2015 in Releases, The Winemaker's Journal | No Comments

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 […]

Diplomacy by the Bottle

Diplomacy by the Bottle

Posted by on Dec 4, 2015 in Releases, The Winemaker's Journal | No Comments

Diplomacy was on the top of the agenda throughout November in Malta and Maltese wine played its role in representing the country when being served at several functions at the highest level. Malta-grown wines are unique in that they are a droplet of our history and heritage; only wines made in Malta by a Maltese […]