Madeira Wine

The original, the best, the one and only: Madeira Wine!


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The original, the best, the one and only: Madeira Wine!

Madeira wine is a fortified wine produced on the Madeira Islands being a rich wine famous for its complex, smokey aromas and flavours. There are four “noble” grapes used exclusively in the best wines: Sercial, the driest; Verdelho the medium dry. Boal, a medium sweet and Malmey or Malvasia, the richest and sweetest one. The Madeira wine is quite unique in how it is barrel aged prior to bottling and can be very long lived often aging for decades in barrel and indefinitely in bottle. Vintage wines or Colheitas are wines made from a single vintage which is indicated on the label although some are bottled as blends of vintages. Sometimes called Reserve (5 years), Special Reserve (10 years) or Extra Reserve (over 15 years), these blends are most commonly bottled with the average age listed on the label.