Putting Sustainability at the Heart of Wine Excellence

Putting Sustainability at the Heart of Wine Excellence

Posted by on Feb 23, 2016 in Releases, The Winemaker's Journal | No Comments

Have you ever cared if there’s a drop of sustainability in your bottle of wine? Maybe you ought to because, quite frankly, wine consumerism oblivious to the well-being of environment and community is built not on rock but on sand. Buying wine that has been made in a sustainable manner from vine to table, on […]

Around Your Palate – Wine’s Vital Spark

Around Your Palate – Wine’s Vital Spark

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

In the appreciation of wine, it’s often difficult to convey the pleasure it gives us because we find it hard to analyse all the different sensations that make up the composite experience we call flavour. Perhaps it is worthwhile to explore how we identify taste to understand better what we like (and possibly dislike) in […]

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 […]