FBIC adds Gozo’s TalMassar to its portfolio

Farsons Beverage Imports Company (FBIC) Limited has recently been entrusted to distribute TalMassar’s wines in Malta. Anthony Hili and his wife Marisa are the driving force behind this awardwinning winery set up back in March 2005. Although Tal-Massar Winery started off in 2005, the family boast a very long tradition in winemaking dating back to 1934.

From the very beginning their goal was to do what very few winemakers considered possible; to put the beauty and the power of our sunshine into a bottle of wine. The Hilis wanted to produce a wine which is so unique that it would reflect the climate, the soil and finally the human hand. To do this they chose grape varietals which had a natural resistance to the extremities of the local microcli- mate of Għarb, the westernmost point of the island of Gozo. In a terroir, which is exposed to salty sea spray, highly calcareous and sandy soil, their good judgment led them to three grape varietals: the Tuscan Sangiovese, renowned to prevail in a chalky soil; Sardinian Vermentino, the coastal grape resistant to salt and the Sicilian Nero d’Avola, or as it is locally known, the Sirkusian grape resistant to very dry weather conditions. These three varietals have provided Tal-Massar with the white Tanit, the red San Mitri and a unique Imqadded produced from late harvested Sirkusian, named Garb. Tal-Massar wines are available in selected restaurants, wine boutiques and Farsonsdirect’s The Wine Shop in Mriehel