Madeira and Port are both fortified Portuguese wines, but Madeira comes from an island in the open ocean closer to Marrakech than Porto. Modern Madeira is derived from the 18th-century wine that sailed around the globe in sweltering... Read More
In the pantheon of dessert wines, there are French Sauternes, German Trockenbeerenauslese, TBA for short, and Hungarian Tokaji. They are also examples of wines made of botrytized (aszú) grapes, i.e., those withered on the... Read More