Of great import: The little-known, perennially prettied Portuguese island of Madeira is becoming a must-see paradise. Welcome to Madeira, the world’s sexiest potluck where you, too, can be its next ...

Across all styles, Madeira shares a recognizable profile shaped by heat and oxidation: flavors often lean toward toasted nuts ...

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 ...

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 ...

To answer the last question first: no. Port comes from the Douro region of Portugal, and Madeira is home to its own eponymous appellation of fortified wine. The where (and the what): Madeira is a ...

Obscure these days, Madeira once was the most popular wine in America. How did the tiny Portuguese archipelago of that name come to produce the most prestigious wines, then fall out of favor? Madeira ...

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 ...

There’s a wine out there that you can’t kill. “Wait,” you say, “Kill a wine? Is that a thing?” It is. Try returning to an opened bottle of Tempranillo after it sits a few nights on the kitchen ...

Vanessa Santos never planned to return home. Born and raised on Madeira, a Portuguese territory in the middle of the Atlantic that’s about half the size of Oahu, she left in 2016 to pursue her studies ...