Tinta Negra is the only red grape grown throughout Madeira. It produces dry, medium-dry, medium-sweet and sweet wines. Perhas the most robust wine in the world, Madeira is indestructible – you ...

The acidity in this fortified wine counteracts the sweetness. One night, around ten years ago, I tasted a Madeira wine whose grapes were harvested before the Civil War. Lincoln was still president ...