Madeira wine has been a long standing interest of mine. I had not heard about this curious wine until I was reading some wine lists written by southern planters in the nineteenth century. I had to look it up after seeing is appear in multiple collector's lists. That happy accident led me on a number of additional fun and even tasty experiences. For a host of reasons - largely coming down to supply of the wines and the harder to track, but likely change in American tastes in wine - madeiras suffered a loss of status. In recent years they have enjoyed some renewed attention as seen in this recent piece in the Birmingham News (AL).
As the piece points out, Manny Berk of the Rare Wine Company has done more than anyone in the US to promote madeira over the past twenty years. Once I partook in a madiera tasting run by Berk and it is a great memory.
If you've never tried madeira give it a taste.
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