Fundamental to Madeiran identity, its 3,100km of aqueducts have proven to be more than a clever and functional feat of engineering to colonise an isolated island. Trudging through thick mud under ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Madeira Wine shares the name of Madeira, a small island in the Atlantic Ocean off ...

Early in the 15 Century, the Portuguese settled deserted volcanic wooded islands, about 400 miles west of Africa in the Atlantic. They planted sugar cane and the classic Grecian grape, malvasia, which ...

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 ...

Savannah is a storied city with libations dominating the headline for generations. And while the traditions of revelry have been held close to the chest of local ancestors, the Davenport House opens ...

The Feast of the Blessed Sacrament starts July 30, and one of the highlights will be its barrels of Madeira wine. That’s right, barrels! The importer, Saraiva Enterprises Inc. of New Bedford, is the ...

According to legend, when 15th-century Portuguese explorers happened upon a rugged and foreboding string of islands—less than a week’s sail from the Iberian Peninsula—sailors sequestered themselves on ...

Fortified wine is wine that has been fermented and then supplemented with distilled spirits. Other common types of fortified wines are port, sherry, and vermouth. Madeira is oxidized through a unique ...

Stephanie Townrow, museum educator for LancasterHistory.org, holds a bottle of James Buchanan's 1827 Madeira at the late president's Wheatland mansion in Lancaster. Mike Simpson of Fetish Brewing Co.