My first taste of Madeira was a Sercial style, estimated to have come from the early 1800s. It was sweet and sour with a distinct nuttiness, layered with a saturated flavor of apricot jam and just a ...

Looking on a world map, Madeira doesn’t look like more than a small smudge off the coast of Morocco. The eye tends to skip right over the archipelago and go immediately to the mainland. But its ...

Madeira wine is beloved around the world and across the centuries; drank by George Washington and referenced by Shakespeare, its 600-year history is still going strong in the Madeira islands. When the ...

3 Master Mixologist: Jacob Tschetter of CHARLIE'S PLACE in Waldwick NJ Madeira Wine shares the name of Madeira, a small island in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal. The landscape of Madeira ...

IS IT LIKE PORT? That’s the first question most wine drinkers ask when contemplating a glass of Madeira, according to Michael Scaffidi, wine director of Union Square Cafe in New York. His answer?

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — Those looking for a new wine to try might want to consider an old favorite. Madeira was the prestigious wine to drink in colonial times. It appeared at George Washington’s ...

There is a wine that once opened, will still taste fresh and fabulous decades later. At the young age of 150 years this wine is just in its prime. It also has a unique claim to American patriotism, ...

It fueled the American Revolution. It fired up the drafters of the U.S. Constitution. And though it hails from Portugal, it was America’s first favorite wine. Madeira, a fortified wine, is inexorably ...

I’ve been told that George Washington drank a pint of Madeira every day. Throughout his lifetime, he ordered it by the pipe (a barrel containing roughly 126 gallons) to be shipped from Portugal to ...

My first taste of Madeira was a Sercial style, estimated to have come from the early 1800s. It was sweet and sour with a distinct nuttiness, layered with a saturated flavor of apricot jam and just a ...