What is this wine? It’s classy without that fat, mushy sweetness I dislike so much. In my glass I hold a lovely wine made at great expense and in such lilliputian quantities – as few as just 400 bottles – that hardly a drop will ever seep across the borders of the country where it comes … Read More
Author: Georges Meekers
Why I love Rosé d’Anjou
On the continent and in the UK, Rosé d’Anjou hit the spot charming everyone who tasted it during the sixties and seventies. On the local scene, in sleepy Malta, it’s coming of belated fame, especially with novice wine drinkers. Its asset of course is that this medium-dry rosé proves that wine doesn’t always have to … Read More
Interesting Thymes
In an island having little or no lush vegetation you would expect that the few patches of countryside that has remained untouched by urbanisation and which is home to literally hundreds of low-growing shrubs and rare indigenous plants would be treated with respect. Alas, no land is sacred in Malta and even linguistically, the Maltese … Read More
Malta's High-Flying Wines
With over 100 award-winning Maltese wines to choose from, picking the right high-flying wine for Malta’s national airliner’s cabin crew to serve on board would appear to be an easy task. However, such a selection process involves the professional help of catering consultants as well as wine experts who take into account the surprisingly unusual … Read More
Early of Loon, wine from Belgium
When you are holding a bottle made from a grape variety whose name isn’t exactly mentioned in the index of Wine Grapes, the industry’s 1200-page tome featuring 1368 different cultivars, you know you you have something rather eccentric in your hands. And, if that special bottle of wine comes from a small and sleepy medieval … Read More