Marsovin

The Marsovin Ltd. is Malta's largest wine company.^{[citation needed]} It was founded in 1919 and is situated in Paola [1].Its subsidiary companies H.H. Ltd. diminutive for Hearts Highlands Ltd, situated in Qormi, produces and imports soft drinks, the Safari Brand Juices, Coolee Squashes [2] and the Fontana table water. 'Löwenbräu (Malta) Ltd.' - originally a joint venture with Löwenbräu in Munich is now defunct. The company has changed its name to LBM Breweries LTD and acts now as a beer importer. Over the last couple of years Marsovin is focusing mainly on the wine industry and the art of wine making. Marsovin is the only wine maker in Malta that produces 'champagne'.

The Cassar de Malte is created using the procedures of the methode traditionnelle used to create champagne but cannot be labelled as champagne because the terms ‘champagne’ and 'methode champegnoise' are restricted^{[citation needed]} to those wines produced by the methode traditionelle in the confines of the Champagne region in France. This Marsovin wine takes its name from the wine-making family, in keeping with tradition. It is made from hiChardonnay grapes harvested from the family’s private 15-tumolo estate in Wardija, where there are 7,500 vines. No more than 8,000 bottles are produced from each harvest, and the process takes more than two years, including two fermentations and 15 months in which the bottles are left to lie on lees, allowing the conversion of yeast into sediment. The bottles are turned by hand every day for four weeks, so that the sediment collects in the neck, from where it is finally removed to allow the addition of the liqueur d’espedition, which determines its classification as Brut.

Today Marsovin has a presence in the United States Of America, Germany and the Czech Republic and ships directly to end-consumers world wide.

History

After World War I Chev. Anthony Cassar founded a wine company with the name of A. & G. Cassar. Since 1956 the firm still owned by the Cassar family has been called Marsovin Ltd.. [3] In the beginning, only imported grapes were pressed, but since the 1950s Marsovin has its own vineyards [4], where red and white grapes are grown, mostly French types.

External Link and Source

Homepage of Marsovin Ltd.

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