Delicata proclaims Malta’s Girgentina and Gellewza Day!
The Delicata winery, the country’s foremost advocate of its two native and endemic grape varieties, is proclaiming the 20th of March henceforth as Malta’s National Girgentina and Ġellewża Day. After all, with this ultra-local grape tandem, impossible to find anywhere else in the world, Malta has a unique story to tell. If widespread varieties like […]
Delicata crushes more rare grapes
They do it in Bordeaux, Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Rioja, Tuscany, Douro and many of the world’s renowned wine regions in search of consistency, complexity and longevity. What are winemakers in these classic red wine areas and appellations doing to improve their wares? Blending of course! The Delicata’s portfolio of award-winning labels, too, includes red wines that owe […]
All the helping hands
Every day, Martin Borg goes for a walk through his Rabat vineyard and inspects his vines, with pruners on his belt, and his dog, a good-natured boxer, for company. If he sees a problem crop up, Martin can nip it in the bud, literally, or if he wants to he can call his viticulture expert […]
Out with the old wood, in with the new wine
“Out with the old”, so it goes! Snip by snip, grape growers start trimming back last year’s wilted wood of dormant vines, stripped of their leaves by the wind and donning only bare cane shoots in their skimpy canopies. Like winemaking, this wood-clipping act is an interplay of reasoning, experience and knowledge that will determine […]
Good Tidings for Malta’s Wine Grape Harvest
The lush green canopies of grape vines are ready to yield their sweet bounty. Harvest time is here. Out in the vineyards, the smell of ripe grapes is all around. Families and friends come together, as they have done for thousands of years, ready to pick this most precious ancient fruit. At the wineries, cellar […]
