A bittersweet, amber-colored soda created in 1952.
Kinnie is Malta’s unmistakable national soft drink, a bittersweet, amber-colored soda created in 1952 by Simonds Farsons Cisk at a moment when the island was being flooded with foreign cola brands. Rather than imitate those colas, the company intentionally set out to craft something that reflected Maltese tastes and Mediterranean identity.
A strategic point where ancient maritime cultures converged, traded, contested, and intertwined.
Malta is a small island nation in the central Mediterranean whose history is far larger than its modest geography, and its name alone carries centuries of linguistic speculation and cultural layering. Often traced to the Phoenician word for refuge or harbor, the term Malta also echoes the Greek island-name Melite,
