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	Madeira wine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Madeira is a fortified wine made in the Madeira Islands of Portugal, which is prized equally for drinking and cooking; the latter use including the dessert plum in madeira.
		Furthermore, the wine is deliberately exposed to air, causing it to oxidize.
		Madeira may be sold as a vintage wine with a specific year when aged in casks for more than 15 years, or a blended wine with a minimum age, such as 3, 5, 10 or 15 years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Madeira_wine (697 words)

	Station Information - Madeira wine
		Madeira is a fortified wine made on in the Madeira islands of Portugal, and is prized equally for drinking and cooking; the later use including the dessert plum in madeira.
		Madeira may be sold as a vintage wine with a specific year, or a solera wine with a minimum age, such as 10 years.
		Madeira wine is prominently featured in the Flanders & Swann song "Have Some Madiera, M'Dear".
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/madeira_wine.html (447 words)

	Underground Wine Journal on klwines.com
		The wines of Madeira were very well known and quite fashionable all over the world in the 18th and 19th centuries but today their appreciation is limited to only a few markets, including Great Britain, the United States, France, Japan and Scandinavia.
		In addition to the Madeira Wine Company, there is Henriques and Henriques, the second largest company in Madeira (wines are sold under the labels of Harvey’s and Sandeman), which was established in 1850 and recently opened a new winery in mid-1994 at Camara de Lobos on the south side of the island.
		Madeira was, at one time, such an important part in the American way of life that it was used to toast the Declaration of Independence and the inauguration of George Washington.
	www.klwines.com /underground/XVIII_No_5/madeira.asp (3582 words)

	Madeira Wine, Fine Wines Online !! Taylor & Norton
		Madeira was made a province of Portugal and in 1425 Zarco became governor of the south side of Madeira, a position he held for 40 years.
		The transportation of these wines by ship to improve them became a very expensive proposition, and for all intents and purposes, the wine of the round voyage, became obsolete in the mid to late 1800’s as a new system was being developed on the island.
		Another method, typically used for lesser quality wines is the Cubas de Calor, or hot vat, which are large vats or tanks in which the wines are heated by a stainless steel coil at the bottom as a pump or propeller mixes the wine.
	www.taylorandnorton.com /newsite/madeira-wine.htm (1605 words)

	Madeira Wine: Crowne Plaza Resort Madeira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The lush green island of Madeira lies in the Atlantic Ocean some 600 kilometres to the west of the North African coast and 850 kilometres to the south-west of its mother country, Portugal.
		The first boost to the trade in Madeira wine came in 1665 when Charles II of England, married the Portuguese princess, Catherine of Braganza, and decreed that all goods shipped to the colonies in the Americas had to sail from England.
		Indeed, the wine played such an important part in the American way of life that it was used to toast the Declaration of Independence and the Inauguration of George Washington, who, it is said, 'drank a pint of Madeira at dinner daily'.
	www.madeira.crowneplaza.com /location/conc7.html (620 words)

	Madeira Wine
		The greatest impetus to the wine industry was initiated by the English in the latter half of the 18th century.
		The sweeter wines are served with dessert and the richest wine, the Malmsey, is an excellent after-dinner drink.
		Madeira wine is so diverse that it is served at any time of the day with practically any type of food.
	www.madeira-web.com /PagesUK/wine-uk2.html (252 words)

	(07/03) visiting Madeira
		Madeira is a Portuguese island, which lies several hundred miles southwest of the Portuguese coast, far into the Atlantic ocean.
		Mountainous and dramatic, Madeira is a lush, fertile outcrop, with a semi-tropical climate that supports a broad array of horticulture and agriculture, from banana plantations to exotic flowers.
		Madeira could be a little sedate for some, and it is a hilly place for sure, but it is also utterly charming with bountiful, verdant countryside, some spectacularly rugged scenery, and a really sophisticated hotel and restaurant scene.
	www.wine-pages.com /travel/madeira.htm (1690 words)

	Strat's Place - Daniel Rogov - Madeira
		All were developed by British wine merchants; all are fortified by the addition of brandy so that they have an alcoholic content of nearly 20%; all can be drunk as aperitifs or dessert wines; and all are relatively expensive.
		This is done because even though overheated wines lose much of their richness they appear older than they really are and the government is afraid that unscrupulous dealers might (as has been done in the past) put the wine in bottles with labels that carry prestigious dates and carry enormously high prices.
		Once it is bottled, Madeira is a long lived wine, and from time to time an 18th cen- tury bottle is found in which the wine is still quite fresh.
	www.stratsplace.com /rogov/madeira.html (980 words)

	ENJOYING MADEIRA WINE - Into Wine
		The wine became known as vinho da roda or wine of the round voyage.
		HE ISLAND OF MADEIRA sat uninhabited in the middle of the North Atlantic until a certain Portuguese explorer, Gonslaves Zarco, was blown off course by a violent storm in 1418 while exploring the coast of West Africa.
		Not only was it the preferred wine, but it was so highly thought of that five years before the Boston Tea Party, it caused a riot on the docks of that city when British customs officials tried to impose duties on a shipment of Madeira.
	www.intowine.com /madeira.html (1262 words)

	Madeira Island : Food&Drink - Madeira wine
		Madeiras are often referred to as dessert wine, but actually they can be served practically anywhere and at anytime.
		The Madeira wines are all pure ingredients from grapes grown on the island in rich volcanic soil.
		Each wine is known by the type of grape and not the vineyard.
	home.online.no /~nancys/portugal/madeira/food/wine.html (88 words)

	2005 Feast Madeira Wine
		Soon enough, the new wines started showing promise so the English found it advantageous to switch their trade to Madeira where they no longer had to deal with the monopolies and could get wines at the same level of quality.
		Wine stocks in Funchal grew visibly by the day as did the general fears that all this precious liquid would go to waste.
		The excitement of the first half of the nineteenth century for the wine led to the revival of vigorous planting and regrowth of vines on rocky terraces and steep mountainsides.
	www.portuguesefeast.com /feastactivities/food/madeira.html (1044 words)

	Madeira Wine Information
		Madeira was first shipped to Europe in 1515, to the court of King Francis I of France.
		Madeira is made with four varieties of grapes, and a bottle of madeira should be labelled according to which were used in it.
		Madeira is often made in the "refreshed" manner - a batch is made, and the following year the new wine is added in with the old wine.
	www.wineintro.com /types/madeira.html (367 words)

	ENJOYING MADEIRA Page 2 - Into Wine
		Wine is made all over the island and it is considered rude not to accept a glass or an invitation to see where it is made.
		Madeira though often over looked, is one of the three great fortified wines of the world — the other two being Port and Sherry.
		The Madeira producer, Shortridge Lawton, was the last firm to abandon the practice of sending their wines around the world on ships in order to gain the "cooked" effect.
	www.intowine.com /madeira2.html (387 words)

	Spotlight on the wines of Madeira
		Madeira (the wine) It was discovered by accident: the story goes that wines from the island were taken on board, fortified with alcohol to survive conditions at sea, and then were baked in the tropical heat of the voyage, developing all sorts of interesting flavours on the way.
		Thus Madeira is a fortified wine that gains complexity by being exposed to high temperatures over a long period.
		Madeira is a fortified wine named after the Atlantic island it comes from, and is made by a special heating process that warms the wine over a prolonged period
	www.wineanorak.com /madeira.htm (918 words)

	The Making Of Madeira-Wine
		In this way the resulting wine will be sweet or dry, depending on when the fermentation of the grape's sugar was stopped, but all the wines will have high alcohol content.
		Once the wine is in the estufa or cask, the Madeira Wine Institute will impose a seal on the container and register it's contents.
		wine is such a blend, the age given on the label indicating the youngest wine in the blend.
	www.cyberroach.com /madeira_d/makingof.htm (1081 words)

	Madeira Wine Description Articles - Madeira Wine Description Results
		To the gibson madeira is quite good light amber in color and sweet on the palate, the wine's somewhat madeira a brief description of maderia more.
		While Chile's wine history runs deep the first vines were allegedly planted by Cortez in the early 16th century it ran up against the same wall that colonized wine regions of high potential did like Argentina and South Africa.
		As a result, the color of wines made from cabernet sauvignon is usually described as violet to dark while the color of wines made from pinot noir is associated with ruby.
	www.officialwineguru.com /madeira-wine-description.html (1006 words)

	Madeira deserves place on dining table - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Chefs the world over have added a touch of Madeira wine as the crowning ingredient in diverse dishes ranging from mushroom soup and oyster soup to roast turkey gravy and roast prime rib with Madeira sauce and horseradish sauce to pound cake with Madeira macerated Clementines.
		Madeira wines were known as some of the world's greatest wines.
		In fact, heating the wines in holds of ships crossing through the intense temperatures at the equator became another part of the aging process to create the distinctive caramelized, slightly oxidized aromas of classic Madeira.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/style/fooddrink/winecellar/s_357397.html (895 words)

	Madeira
		So, they actually shipped the wines back and forth for years, keeping track of the age of the barrels and thus made what is regarded today as one of the richest and longest lived wines produced.
		Wines are cooked for up to a year in the estufas and aged in a pyramid of connected barrels for years.
		Wines with older designations have a minimum age of whatever appears on the label, 10 years and 15 years are most common.
	the-vu.com /Madeira.htm (1345 words)

	Madeira Island - Straight from Funchal, Madeira, Portugal - Welcome
		The Madeira Property Finder is a recently launched service for local advertisers to sell their real estate to a wider international audience.
		If you are a parent moving to Madeira or are seeking a quality alternative to your child's current eduation at the moment do not hesitate to visit the "Escola Internacional da Madeira".
		Madeira is surrounded by the Atlantic - the blue waves visible almost from anywhere on the island.
	www.madeira-island.com (551 words)

	madeira wine
		Madeira is a fortified wine made in the Madeira islands of Portugal, and is prized equally for...
		Madeira Island is known as the Pearl of the Atlantic, the floating Garden.
		Madeira wine is quite used to travelling around the...
	www.drink-galaxy.com /articles/35/madeira-wine.html (341 words)

	Madeira Wine notes
		The styles of the wines each had their place, dry Sercial as an apertif alternative to Sherry, the sweet styles as an alternative to Port, and medium dry Verdelho as the chosen tipple of ladies’ afternoon or late morning Madeira parties.
		Madeira went seriously out of fashion and as prices for grapes fell, the famous vineyards for Malvasia and Bual were replanted with bananas or tropical fruit, and many of the cooler higher vineyards for Verdello and Sercial were replanted with the high yielding Tinto Negro Mole.
		In the past this was abused with wine made from Tinto Negro Mole or hybrid vines being passed off as classic varietal Madeira, but recent wine legislation requires that wines actually are made from 95% of the variety on the label.
	www.arblasterandclarke.com /wine-notes-madeira.htm (442 words)

	The Madeira Wine Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The island of Madeira was discovered in 1419 by the Portuguese mariner João Gonçalves Zarco who had been instructed by Prince Henry the Navigator to explore the west African Coast.
		The original impetus to the trade in Madeira was provided in the late 17th Century by the King of Portugal who ordered that ships bound for Brazil should call at the island to take on wine for the developing settlements in his distant colony.
		The lovely Old Blandy Wine Lodge in the centre of Funchal is visited by some 200,000 people per year and acts as an excellent show place for many the finest wines of Madeira.
	www.madeirawinecompany.com /print (659 words)

	The Wine Exchange - Madeira, Bual, Malmsey, Verdelho (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Wine Exchange is a full-service retail wine store with wine tasting bar, classes, retail wine sales, monthly newsletter including wine prices, and special events for everyone from wine novice to expert wine connoisseur.
		The fortified wines from Madeira are famous for their sweet richness.
		Madeira wines are normally drank after dinner, but Madeira wine can be enjoyed alone.
	www.winex.com /cgi-bin/ducs/display/o__content_cms/i__31 (93 words)

	The Making Of Madeira Wine
		the organic contents of the wine react with the air's oxygen and thereby change the color, the smell and the taste of the wine.
		The normal everyday Madeira wine is such a blend, the age given on the label indicating the youngest wine in the blend.
		Madeira wine, because of the complete oxidation, is very robust and will keep for years to come, even centuries.
	www.cyberroach.com /madeira_v300/making/making_of.htm (1120 words)

	From Here to Eternity \| Food & Wine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Madeira is made on a remote volcanic Portuguese island some 300 miles west of Morocco.
		Still, something of a Madeira revival has already begun, although Americans are unlikely to resume drinking the wine the way they did in the early 1800s when Thomas Jefferson poured 4,000 bottles for his White House guests.
		The four classic Madeira grapes are inching their way back from oblivion and even Terrantez--thought to be extinct--resurfaced this year with both Blandy's and D'Oliveira releasing to the United States small amounts of vintages from the 1970s.
	www.foodandwine.com /articles/from-here-to-eternity (1073 words)

	Madeira: wine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Madeira is, of course, famous for its fortified wine known to most as "Madeira".
		The captain assumed that the wine was now bad, having sat in the barrel on his boat for so long.
		It turns out that the slow heating in oak barrels, which happened naturally during the sea voyage, and now happens naturally in oak barrels stowed in the attics of wineries (or in the cheaper varieties, in heated vats), was responsible for the special flavor.
	www.cs.dartmouth.edu /~dfk/trips/2000Madeira/wine.html (277 words)

	Madeira Wine Company S. A. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Madeira Wine Company S. Madeira Wine Company S. The Madeira Wine Company was formed in 1913 as an association of exporters who decided to join efforts to increase their efficiency on exportations.
		The Madeira Wine Company today is one of the biggest producers on the island, with approximately 35% of the local Madeira market and with a high share of the bottled market worldwide, especially on the higher categories of wines.
		Blandy wines are always a little richer and heavier, Cossart wines are more fruity and elegant, Leacock wines always appear to me as sweeter than the other brands and Miles represents a somewhat lighter style.
	www.madeirawineguide.com /madeira_v300/producers_shippers_and_co/mwc/madeira_wine_company.htm (822 words)

	Madeira Wine
		Madeira wine is produced in the beautiful Island of Madeira.
		Madeira wine attains its particular bouquet after a heating process.
		This process consists in storing the wine in tubs during a 6 months high temperature sleep, followed by a gradual decrease of the temperature.
	www.portuguesewine.com /madeira.asp (106 words)

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