A CNBC World film crew recently spent some seven hours filming at the Delicata winery and at the company’s wine festival at the Upper Barrrakka garden in Valletta,.

The crew, who arrived on the Holland America cruise liner, were filming a new wine, food and travel series for the Wine Portfolio programme presented by TV host Jody Ness. The programme which will be aired on CNBC World four times a week later in the year, is watched by over 88 million viewers in the US and 330 million people worldwide.

Jody Ness, president of Re:Source Media inc was particularly interested in the wines made from Malta’s two indigenous grape varieties and particularly liked the Girgentina and Ġellewża Frizzantes.

He also passed very favourable comments on other wines made from the international varieties such as the two I.Ġ.T. Maltese Islands Maltese Falcon red and Pjazza Reġina red as well as the three D.O.K. Malta Medina Vermentino Zibibbo and the barrel matured Gran Cavalier Merlot and Syrah wines.

This year’s Delicata wine festival, which broke all previous attendance records on all four nights of the event, was highly praised by the CNBC news team who stated that they had been caught totally by surprise, both by the quality of the Delicata wines and the atmosphere of the festival itself.

They also commented on what a great showcase the festival is for Maltese wines and how unique and impressive such an event is, especially being that it is all organised by one single producer at such an exclusive venue.