For The Love Of Port

Peter, I The bottle I was talking about is a 1974 Deetlef's Muscat d'Alexandrie "Philippus Petrus Deetlef" . Ahhhhhhhhhh.................... I remember the fuss about that. From their website THE STORY More than a quarter of a century ago, my late father, Philippus Petrus Deetlefs and a w...

Hi Peter I will be glad to hear of the results of your enquiry*. There are three matters 1) The identity of Jacquet 2) The identity of the 'Cigar Box Grape' 3) The identity of the grape that is supposed to have come from Madeira My researches show that all three are different: 1) I am certain Jacque...

Roy I think you'll see a world of difference between the wines made 95-99 and those being made now, on the otherhand those old wines have aged nicely now. I am intrigued what on earth could have cost 30,000 ZAR ten years ago; that would have been 3000 pounds or 6000 dollars.... Even today the most e...

From the evidence I have so far read I have come to the conclusion that Jaquet is a hybrid that originated in the USA that was brought to Madeira in the late 1800s as a replacement for vines killed by oidium or phylloxera. The Cigar Box story is romantic, but I have found no evidence to back it. The...

Many thanks to all those who have replied. I have read that item on the Madeira WIne Guide which says that Jacquet was taken from Madeira to the USA and which also says that Jacquet is pure vinifera. That begs the questions if Jacqet is vinifera, why was (and still is) it banned by the EU as a hybri...

Hi All I am looking for information on the origin of the hybrid grape variety Jacquet also known as Jacquez that was widely grown on Madeira and used to make Madeira wine until stopped by EU legislation in 1979, and now is used only for local wines. I realise that this is past history but I'm hoping...