Made in Malta Products

Cassar de Malte is created using the strict, lengthy and rigorous procedures of the methode traditionelle, which is the method used to create champagne. It cannot be labelled as champagne because the terms ‘champagne’ and methode champegnoise are restricted to those wines produced by the methode traditionnelle in the confines of the Champagne region in France.

Cassar de Malte is not a frizzante, which is made by introducing gas into still wine, nor is it produced by the methode charmante, in which bubbles are introduced by an additional fermentation process. Outside Champagne, the methode traditionelle is used in Cava in Spain, in Franciacorta in Italy, and in Malta by Marsovin for Cassar de Malte.

This prestigious Marsovin wine takes it name from the wine-making family, in keeping with tradition. It is made from high-quality Chardonnay 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 each 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.

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