Malta Wine Tasting Team

A white-only training flight! Last year, at the Championnat du monde de dégustation La RVF, we missed most whites. Then we were the top team on the reds. So we’ll do some extra work on the whites now, which in general are harder to guess then reds (especially Italians).
We did ok in this BYOB session: the team got the Cava/Corpinnat right, the Condrieu, the Italian Pinot Gris and the Jura Chard. Quintarelli was a super oddball and unfortunately the Rioja was corked.
68 points for 6 wines. Not bad! The team at the tasting: Matthew Delicata Rebecca Degaetano Andrea Bomboklan Marco Trucco.

The road to the world tasting championship continues! We have to defend and improve our 12th position of last year and we need to try new wines constantly! This 🍷lineup🍷was sponsored by M&Z What’s in the Glass and presented by
Marko Vucinic: a nice selection of tricky wines! This time we had great calls with the whites and fumbled with the reds. We got the first four wines almost spot-on: the Cremant de Bourgogne, the Sauvignon, the Cotes du Rhône white and the Burgundy Chard. Maybe a little bit of over-confidence kicked in and we missed the second Chard (Mercurey) and the spritzy Riesling. Among the reds we nailed the beautiful Rioja, the classic Barolo but we flipped the wrong side of the coin on the CabF/Carmenere toss-up call. Overall 109 points and some extra experience. Team favourites: the excellent Viré-Clessé from Chanson and the Viña Arana Gran Reserva from La Rioja Alta.
The Maltese Wine Knights at this tasting: Manuel Degiorgio Pierre Finger Matthew Delicata Marco Trucco. Championnat du monde de dégustation La RVF

The Team is back with a cracking tasting. Seven members and Petros Skarmoutsos MC in the house! Farsonsdirect sponsored an absolutely stellar 🍷lineup🍷of wines, with legendary-level producers such as Egon Müller and Chateau Grillet plus benchmarks like La Spinetta for Barbaresco, Quinta do Noval for Douro, Roda for Rioja, Shafer for Napa, Brancaia for Chianti, Berlucchi for Franciacorta, Royal Tokaij, Norton for Mendoza, Faiveley for Marsannay and Chavy Chouet for Meursault. What a treat! We started strong, nailing the Franciacorta, the Mosel Riesling and the white Rioja. The amazing Grillet and the Meursault were just too good to focus on scoring. Among the reds we got the Malbec and the Napa but we scored some points in other wines too. A respectable total of 113 points with 10 rated wines. We called the Barbaresco a Xinomavro probably as a nod to Petros- but we were so wrong! Team favourites: all of them really. The Riesling, the Grillet and the Touriga are just insanely good.
The team at this tasting: Aaron Rizzo Andrea Bomboklan Marco Trucco Manuel DegiorgioPierre Finger Matthew Delicata Rebecca Degaetano. Let’s go to the Championnat du monde de dégustation La RVF and always Visit Malta!