{"id":7665,"date":"2019-11-10T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marcheselucaspinola.it\/site\/?p=7665&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-01-31T17:04:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:04:31","slug":"marchese-luca-spinola-wines-sail-to-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marcheselucaspinola.it\/site\/marchese-luca-spinola-wines-sail-to-malta\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"MARCHESE LUCA SPINOLA WINES SAIL TO MALTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea and Nora made their first landing in <strong>Malta<\/strong>, an island that still bears many important traces of the centuries-old presence of the noble Spinola family: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spinola.it\/work\/palazzo-spinola-1688\/\" target=\"new\"><strong>Palazzo Spinola<\/strong><\/a>, for example, was built in 1688 for Fra Paolo Raffaele Spinola, a Knight of the Order of St John and Grand Prior of Lombardy; originally, the building was set in extensive parkland, with Baroque gardens and, of course, vineyards!<\/p>\n<p>According to the Latin inscription above the main entrance, Palazzo Spinola and its park was built as a place of recreation for local residents. It overlooks <strong>Spinola Bay<\/strong>, also known today as St Julian\u2019s Bay, and houses the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM).<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the visit was to meet a number of current and potential clients interested in organic Gavi, at a special wine-tasting evening offering Andrea and Nora and their clients an opportunity to get to know one another.<\/p>\n<p>Of the many restaurant visits around the island, the evening at the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/palazzoprecavalletta.com\/\" target=\"new\"><strong>Palazzo Preca<\/strong><\/a> restaurant, one of the best known in Malta, was unforgettable. The restaurant is run by the owners and chefs <strong>Roberta and Ramona,<\/strong> who include Marchese Luca Spinola organic wines in their wine list, and also dress in the colours and with the crest of the family!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/malta-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7157\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/malta-01x.jpg\" alt=\"news-malta-1\" width=\"200\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/malta-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7157\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/malta-02x.jpg\" alt=\"news-malta-2\" width=\"200\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/malta-03.jpgg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7159\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/malta-03x.jpg\" alt=\"news-malta-3\" width=\"200\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/malta-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7157\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/malta-04x.jpg\" alt=\"news-malta-4\" width=\"200\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/malta-05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7159\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/malta-05x.jpg\" alt=\"news-malta-5\" width=\"200\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea and Nora made their first landing in Malta, an island that still bears many important traces of the centuries-old presence of the noble Spinola family: Palazzo Spinola, for example, was built in 1688 for Fra Paolo Raffaele Spinola, a Knight of the Order of St John and Grand Prior of Lombardy; originally, the building&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marcheselucaspinola.it\/site\/marchese-luca-spinola-wines-sail-to-malta\/?lang=en\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcheselucaspinola.it\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcheselucaspinola.it\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcheselucaspinola.it\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcheselucaspinola.it\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcheselucaspinola.it\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcheselucaspinola.it\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7666,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcheselucaspinola.it\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7665\/revisions\/7666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcheselucaspinola.it\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcheselucaspinola.it\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcheselucaspinola.it\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcheselucaspinola.it\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}