Canteiro method, barrels of Madeira, cellar, vintage, winery, storage, cask, vineyard, container, wood, oak wine Barrels are left for years in the shippers' lodges to age.

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All Madeira wines—whether from a single vintage or a blend of harvests—are produced on a spectacular volcanic island of the same name which surges from the sea at a point 360 miles west of Morocco. The history of Madeira’s wine is nearly as old is that of the island. The island was first settled by Europeans in 1419, and by 1455 a visitor from Venice wrote that Madeira’s vineyards were the world's most beautiful. Within a century, the wine from these vineyards was well established in markets throughout Europe and by the 1600's it had become the most popular wine in Britain’s North American colonies.

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