MALTA


Meridiana is a winery with a great story: With vines planted on a former airstrip beneath Malta’s walled city of Mdina, and the project encouraged by renowned Bordeaux oenologist Denis Dubordieu and backed by none less than Marchese Piero Antinori, its first wines were released in the mid-90s to great acclaim. Such is local demand, they rarely make it off the island but are well worth seeking out as they represent Malta’s finest. Their flagship, Celsius Cabernet Sauvignon, is very ripe and rich, packed with chocolately blackcurrant and cassis and with long, smooth cedary tannins.


CORFU


SALINA From 0.8 hectare vineyard in the midst of luxury resort, Capofaro, on the Aeolian island of Salina (its sunsets made famous in Oscar-winning romance “Il Postino”), comes a superb sweet wine courtesy of Sicily’s most prominent wine family, Tasca d’Almarita. Made from Malvasia, harvested mid-September and dried to achieve the perfect level of sweetness through dehydration. Capofaro is richly exotic, with fermented apple, preserved lemon, mandarin, potpourri and white petal aromas moving through a ripe apricot palate to a fresh light sherbet lemon finish with a touch of salinity.


ISLAND VINEYARD CONTACTS


Theotoky Estate Corfu, Greece www.theotoky.com


Cantina di Santadi Winery Sardinia, Italy www.cantinadisantadi.it


Ànima Negra Winery Mallorca, Spain www.annegra.com


Meridiana Wine Estate Malta


meridiana.com.mt


Capofaro Malvasia & Resort Salina, Italy www.capofaro.it


ONBOARD | SPRING 2018 | 99


Although it had enjoyed a good reputation for over 150 years, Corfu’s’ Theotoky winery, gained overnight fame in the early 1980s after Roger Moore’s 007 commented favourably on a glass of their white in “For Your Eyes Only”. Their Cuvée Spéciale, a blend of 90% Robola and 10% local grape Kakotrigis, shows good structure and body, and plenty of white stones on the nose to balance out the floral, jasmine perfume. An impressive, complex and rare wine, well worth seeking out – it will leave you more stirred than shaken.


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