Maltese wine - a detour from the Langudoc to visit Delicata Wines
It was a walking holiday on Malta and I had not really thought about Maltese wine at all, but on the first evening, we ordered a bottle of the island’s white wine, a fragrant wine with an obscure name, Girgentina. We actually spent a week walking on the smaller island of Gozo, where luxurious patches of broad beans were to be seen – an English allotment holder’s envy – but very few vineyards. Research on Google revealed that Argentina was an indigenous grape variety, not be founded anywhere else. And f urther research produced the names of the two principal wine producers of the island, Marsovin and Delicata. Delicata had the more welcoming website, complete with an email address if you would like to visit, so I winged an email and immediately received a response from Matthew Delicata and an appointment was made. Matthew explained that he is the fourth generation of wine producers. His origi...
