7 Facts About Madeira Wine

<p style="text-indent: 18px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 160px;"> <img src= "//assets.libsyn.com/show/46773/Photo_Oct_03_2022_1_02_52_PM.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="267" /></p> <p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 18px; margin: 0px;"> <!--StartFragment--><span style= "font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">I got invited to a Madeira wine tasting a few weeks ago. Madeira? I realized I didn’t know much about this type of wine. I went to the tasting and attended the seminar and educated myself all about Madeira. Madeira is very versatile and pairs well with many foods.</span></p> <p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 18px; margin: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">I’m going to give you 7 facts about Madeira and at the end is a podcast that will give you a better understanding of this wine from the seminar I attended with Bruno Almeida, Sommelier and Portuguese Wine Ambassador.I hope you learn as much as I did, and give Madeira a try.</span></p> <p style= "-qt-paragraph-type: empty; -qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 18px; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">  </p> <p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 18px; margin: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">7 Facts About Madeira Wine</span></p> <ul style="-qt-list-number-prefix: ''; margin: 0px;"> <li style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;"> Madeira is a Portuguese island located off the coast of Africa. The wine produced on the island has the same name - Madeira.</li> <li style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;"> When Madeira wine is made using the Estufagem method, the wine can never be bottled and sold before the October 31 of the second year following the harvest.</li> <li style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;"> Wines made in the Canteiro method (fortified during or right after fermentation and aged in wood cask) can’t be sold until at least three years from January 1st of the year following the har