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 […]
Riżerva released by Delicata
Delicata released their first ‘Riżerva’ edition of the Gran Cavalier Syrah DOK Malta Superior, 2017. Producing a Riżerva is time consuming. This premium red wine is a vibrant bottle of structure and excitement that’s the result of 13 months barrel maturation and almost another entire year ageing in bottle prior to release. For this particular […]
Double gold for Delicata wines in Bergamo
Emmanuel Delicata Winemaker is the only Maltese winery to win at the 2019 Emozioni dal Mondo Merlot e Cabernet Insieme wine competition in Bergamo, Italy. Delicata bagged two gold medals and the press prize. The first gold medal went to the outstanding 2017 vintage of Gran Cavalier Merlot, D.O.K. Malta, Superior. This garnet red wine […]
Celebrating Merlot Day
Secretly I’m longing for someone to finally proclaim a national day in honour of Malta’s Ġellewża and Girgentina varieties. Until then, I gladly revel in International Merlot Day, which is celebrated by oenophiles around the world on 7 November. If you follow this wine column, you know I keep Merlot close to my heart and […]
