The pick of the bunch, though, was Trabuxu (1 Triq id-Dejqa/Strait Street, +2122 3036), a tastefully-styled wine bar in an old vegetable storage cellar.
Many people who lived through the Depression, for example, recorded in diaries the way they grew food in their yards, storing cabbages and other vegetables in root cellars to provide vitamins in winter, and canning other foods, some of them gleaned from orchards and fields.
I brought fresh salad greens, and lots of our vegetables from our freezer and root cellar.
This cold treatment can be provided by a cold frame, an unheated attic or cellar, or even your refrigerator's vegetable section.
"This is so much less stressful and less labor-intensive than vegetables," Mr. Quarella said, standing in the wine cellar where as a teenager he was taught how to make wine by his grandfather.
If you don't have a root cellar, you can store them in the vegetable bin of your refrigerator.
Fruit and vegetable storage for family consumption is usually in caves or cellars.
His new cuisine calls out for white wines that match the mineral nature of vegetables, and he is totally revamping his wine list and cellar to reflect this.
We ate lamb chops with asparagus and other local vegetables, accompanied by a wine from the heretofore impossible-to-find Leonetti Cellar -- the great 1994 cabernet sauvignon -- at a reasonable price.
Cellar, room beneath ground level, especially one for storing fruits and vegetables, both raw and canned, on a farm.
But if their garden harbored root vegetables, waiting to be dug up and spend the winter in a root cellar, I never saw one.
