I hardly need to convince Purple pagers of the astounding longevity of madeira wines, described by Jancis in The miracle of madeira , and demonstrated many times over by tasting notes  back...

‘Many are called and few are chosen', was the opening line as we sat in a room in London last June, glittering with rows of glasses and jewelled amber liquid, the scent of madeira heavy in the...

See dozens of tasting notes of madeiras of all but the lowest quality in The Great Island Tasting and More madeiras . Bert Jeuris, a 34-year-old importer of burgundy and fine Portuguese...

These madeiras were tasted either in the lodges of the Madeira Wine Company (Blandy's/Cossart Gordon/Leacock/Miles), D'Oliveiras or Barbeito on the island of Madeira last week, or at the...

These pictures show just part of the archive of sales ledgers bequeathed to the Madeira Wine Company by Noel Cossart, author of one of the most authoritative books on the wine (along with Alex...

The week before last, at the top of a cliff running sheer down to the Atlantic , I took part in one of the most remarkable tastings I ever expect to enjoy. The 43 wines included no fewer...

In a laudable example of bandwagons being pulled by hobby horses, wine aficionados have been showing palpable concern for the recently stricken island of Madeira. Madeira wine, with its...

It's crisp and cold in London today, perfect weather for one of my favourite wines, madeira, wonderfully crisp yet warming. I always say it would be my desert island wine because: A...

I’m feeling pretty fortified at the moment. I ran a tawny port tasting a couple of weeks ago, from which we have rather a lot of leftovers, which we’re dipping into in a gentle way. I’ve...

In the third and last of our profiles of great fortified wines, Richard Hemming looks at one of the most exciting producers of Madeira. (The Madeira wine scene has been immeasurably impoverished...

In a nutshell : Exceptionally long-lived, tangy, fortified wines. Main grapes : A sorry tale. Madeira is a volcanic island in the middle of the Atlantic, a wine, and a...

The death has just been announced of John Cossart (chairman of Henriques & Henriques Madeira), who died of a sudden heart attack in the early hours of yesterday morning on the island of...

  Patrick Grubb MW ran Sotheby’s wine department 1973-1984 but now runs Patrick Grubb Wine Selections (tel +44 1869 340229) specialising in fine and rare madeira, one of the...

Gary Gillman, Toronto: Thanks for the welcoming note !  I really enjoyed your 01 mar 03 Madeira article . I have a bottle given to me as a gift some years ago (sourced I was...

Birmingham, Britain's second city in the heart of the Midlands for all you furriners, is not best served for wine events and tastings, which is why I publish the following. New Zealand...