Years ago I created the http://www.MadeiraWineGuide.com website to put some kind of a Madeira wine knowledge base on the web. My twin brother was kind enough to run this website from a server in his basement and it was later joined with the ForTheLoveOfPort-Forum.
Over the last years however the MadeiraWineGuide has stagnated and I never had the time to put some new content into it or to post any updates. A demanding job, my family, other interests, they all wanted their share and so I had long thought about ending the MWG.
In a couple of months now my brother will move to another place and this would mean to put the MWG on a new server, with a new ISP, with a new publishing platform. With family, job, some health issues, this would simply be to much of an effort for me. So probably by late summer, but certainly by the end of 2018, the MWG will be shut down. However I would like the collected knowledge to live on, so please feel free to download, copy, use everything that has ever been posted on the MWG, as long as it is possible. And might I ask you to state the source as "MWG".
I enjoyed our conversations about Madeira wine, I even more enjoyed doing some serious Madeira wine tasting with some of you. Especially the tastings in Seattle and the magnificent TTT in NYC I will treasure for the rest of my life. I thank all of you for your interest in the MWG over the years, for wonderful bottles and the lively discussions about Madeira and other topics.
I wish you all the best and a good glass of Madeira wine
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Peter Reutter