Marsovin has launched a new range of Maltese wines, Caravaggio. To mark the occasion President Emeritus Prof. Guido De Marco launched the new range of wines at St John’s Cavallier.

The new range of wines comprises of four wines, a Merlot, a Shiraz, a Cabernet Sauvignon and a Chardonnay. Every wine carries one of Caravaggio’s masterpieces. The Merlot carries The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, the Shiraz carries the Portrait of a Knight of Malta, the Cabernet Sauvignon Bacchus and the Chardonnay carries the Rest on the flight to Egypt. Every single grape used to produce these wines was grown and handpicked in selected Maltese vineyards. The production of this wine is limited and each bottle is numbered to validate its issue.

These wines are being produced by official appointment to the Caravaggio Foundation. Marsovin will be donating a sum of money to the Foundation to help restore Caravaggio’s paintings from every bottle, which is produced and sold.

Caravaggio wines are dedicated to the master of art – Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, a revolutionary naturalist painter. Caravaggio showed his talent early and at the age of 16, after a brief apprenticeship in Milan, was studying with d’Arpino in Rome. During the period 1592-98 Caravaggio's work was precise in contour, brightly coloured, and sculpturesque in form, like the Mannerists, but with an added social and moral consciousness. His use of chiaroscuro – the contrast of light and dark to create atmosphere, drama, and emotion – was revolutionary. Famous and extremely influential while he lived, Caravaggio was almost entirely forgotten in the centuries after his death, and it was only in the 20th century that his importance to the development of western art was rediscovered.

Marsovin is also honoured to effect a donation to the Jerosolimitan Nuns of the Monastery of St Ursula on this occasion by way of contributing towards the restoration expenses of the monastery.