Live life with fine Spanish wines

The tourist season has started in Malta. We already have had our fair share of guests coming in from various parts of the world visiting us on this tiny but beautiful island in the middle of the Mediterranean sea.

I always take my visitors to the Upper Barrakka Gardens in Valletta where one can take in breath-taking views of the Grand Harbour and the three cities on the other side of Valletta. Valletta has one of the biggest natural deep water harbour. From here, one can see the cruise ships stopping in Valletta for a day. The visitors from the cruise liners can reach the center of Valletta in about 10 minutes by walking uphill. It is very impressive to see some of these huge cruise ships so closed to the city.

The other day I took one of our guests to the Upper Barrakka Gardens as usual. (more…)

I remember when just hearing the phrase ”Rhone wine” would get me salivating. The reds would perhaps get me going more than the whites but I used to love the white ones as well. Those were in the day when France to some extent still was synonymous with QUALITY wine. Slowly but surely, however, France’s grip on me, and many others, loosened and I started to enjoy the Rhone Viogniers (basically the only white Rhone wine I used to go for) more and more infrequently.

The last really memorable occasion was probably six or seven years ago when a friend, after a couple of drinks at a dinner party, casually opened a Chateau Grillet and generously poured it into any glass that happened to be close by. It was unfortunately not chilled enough but was still a beautiful wine, probably around 4-5 years old, and all that you would expect from a wine with such a famous name. (more…)

This is not going to be the most profound blog i wrote but a friend sent me through this the other day and it gave me a good laugh, hope it has the same effect on you. Enjoy your weekend!

To my friends who enjoy a glass of wine.. And those who don’t…As Ben Franklin said: In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria.

In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E.. Coli) Bacteria found in feces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of Poop. (more…)