“Humdinger” is not a word I usually use to describe a grape variety, but if I’m going to start, then Malvasia de Sitges is the variety I’d apply it to. As I pointed out in a previous article, there are oodles of names that this variety can be obscured under and the ‘official’ one is meant to be Malvasia di Lipari from an island in Italy just to the north of Sicily. That’s all well and good and I haven’t tasted any wines from this island, but it’s a strange […]
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