Malta: Delicata wines investigated over alleged use of Italian grapes in ‘Maltese’ DOK wine
Malta: Delicata wines investigated over alleged use of Italian grapes in ‘Maltese’ DOK wine
Apr 9, 2012 6
(MaltaToday) - The managing director of wine producer Delicata, George Delicata, is insisting that he knows nothing of an ongoing police investigation into a suspected case of fraud related to DOK wine classification.
MaltaToday is informed that the Ministry for Rural Affairs has carried out an analysis of three Delicata wines - the Gran Cavalier Vintage 2010, the Medina Sauvignon Blanc 2010 Vintage and the Delicata Cavalli Blanc varietal 2010 - and found that two of the wines, marked as DOK, had in fact been produced from grapes which originated from Italy and were imported to Malta for winemaking purposes.
A wine acquires a DOK certificate when it is produced from grapes that have been cultivated in Malta.
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