For The Love Of Port

Both my wife and I are _crazy_ about Madeira. We discovered it together during our 2003 honeymoon trip to the island, and we feel roughly the same about how much we can afford to spend on it. During our return trip to the island last April, we had to decide what our budget was for bottles to bring h...

Hi Andy,

Of all post-1900 sercials at D'Oliveira's, 1937 was much my favorite. It was not especially dry, but altogether it had superb qualitites. Sometimes sercials fail me in having a flat alcoholic finish, and that was not the case with the '37.

-Isaac

Hi All,

Does anyone know where it might be possible to get H&H 15-year wines in the Boston Area? When I lived in NY City, I ordered once or twice from out of state, but I believe I can't do that in MA.

-Isaac

We did get around the island a bit. We did some hiking around Santana and Sao Jorge, as well as Pico Ruivo, walked along some levadas in the Rabacal area, and also took a day trip to Curral das Freiras. We hoped to get to Ponte Sao Lourenco, but didn't have good weather the day we hoped to go. All a...

Mission accomplished! We got back safely from our trip the night before last, along with 10 bottles of wine. D'Olivera's gave me styrofoam containers for each bottle, and we fit 6 of those into a nice cardboard box. It got ripped up a bit in the luggage and one of the styrofoams was busted, but than...

Hi All, Thanks for the advice and and anecdotes. Now we are in Funchal, but we haven't gotten any kind of wine carrier yet. Does anyone know where in Funchal I might be able to get the styrofoam variety? I suppose some of the wine shops or wine lojas proprietors might be able to advise me on that, b...

Hi All, My wife and I are returning to Madeira 8 years after our honeymoon, having learned a bit about Madeira during that time. We are hoping to bring a number of decent vintage madeiras back home with us to the USA (maybe 5-10 bottles depending on what's practical). We don't travel much, and now t...