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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

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, ...

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 from 1796 was found in the wine cellar of now Liberty Hall Museum. — -- Benjamin Franklin once said, "Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more ...

A dollar a year. That’s how much — how little, really — a bottle of good madeira will cost you. Madeira, a wine from the Atlantic island of the same name, gets going only after a half century of age.

When I told people we were going on vacation to Madeira, it raised an eyebrow or two. To answer the last question first: No. Port comes from the Douro region of Portugal, and Madeira is home to its ...