The Italian range of wines available on the Maltese market – Le Soraie – was recently available for tasting on all high speed trains across Italy.

Thanks to the business relationship between the Pasqua Family and the Cremonini Group and the cooperation of the Italian Railways, Le Soraie was available for tasting for around one month on all High Speed Trains. First-class travellers on these trains – around 75,000 persons each week – were able to take a pleasant break and enjoy Le Soraie during their journey.

The Italian Railways – Ferrovie dello Stato – offered passengers a selection of representative wines from Italian producers. This initiative helped underline the merits of top-class Italian products by promoting the country’s oeno-gastronomic culture in an area of the market that has hitherto not really been taken advantage of.

“The Pasqua Family has always demonstrated its support for Italian values and culture,” said Clyde Attard, Marketing Manager at P. Cutajar & Co Ltd, importers and distributors of Pasqua wines and of Le Soraie in Malta. “Pasqua appreciated and sustained this initiative right from the start, as it did with many other similar initiatives. The Family has a love for tradition and for culture, representing and promoting the best that Italy has to offer around the world. P. Cutajar has a great working relationship with Pasqua. Only last year a team from P. Cutajar was invited to the Estates to strengthen our relationship and to partake of Pasqua’s incredible hospitality,” he continued.

The Pasqua Family has created various different sectors, united by a single vision and the same values. Examples of this are the Estates. Cecilia Beretta, for instance, represents the very best in Veronese winemaking: it devotes itself to a limited production of top-class wines, of which the Amarone Terre di Cariano is the flagship.

Masseria Surani, at Manduria in the Salento peninsula, results from the Family’s passion for experimentation and for highlighting the qualities of Italy’s finest wine production zones, but it is also a declaration of love for the Pasquas’ land of origin, where everything began over 80 years ago.

Villa Borghetti is the line that captures the very essence of the Valpolicella Classico area and Le Soraie expresses all the poetry of the appassimento (grape drying) technique. Then there are the more recent projects, which spring from the Pasquas’ courage in taking on the challenge of unknown areas and from their desire to explore new possibilities and find new alternatives.