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1. Madeira: The Mid-Atlantic Wine
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Who does not know the phrase "Have some madeira, m'dear"? Madeira is one of the world's greatest wines, with a fascinating history few others can equal. Capable of evolution over decades and with seemingly indefinite longevity, precious centenarian bottles are sought by wine connoisseurs world wide, but to the ordinary wine lover more commercial wines offer a wide range of delicious and varied drinking. Once dismissed as a cooking wine, discriminating drinkers enjoy it on its own and, increasingly, as an accompaniment to food. Over a million tourists visit this small island every year, and expanding export markets indicate that the recent revival of interest in madeira continues to gain strength.This book, originally published in 1998, was short-listed for the Andr Simon Award and quickly established itself as a wine classic. Alexander Liddell, recognised as the leading authority on madeira, has known the island and its wine for over forty years, and this completely revised new edition brings matters up to date.
2. The Wines of Madeira - an Indispensable Guide to the Wines, Grapes and Producers
3. Authentic Portuguese Cooking: More Than 185 Classic Mediterranean-Style Recipes of the Azores, Madeira and Continental Portugal
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Starred Review in Publishers Weekly : "...Readers interested in expanding their repertoires would do well to consider this terrific compilation..."
An Encyclopedic Collection of Recipes from One of the World's Most Cherished Food Cultures
Ana Patuleia Ortins will help you travel to and experience the unique paradise of Portugal without setting foot on a plane. Portugal is known for its cuisine that while mild in spice, is rich in flavor. As the authority on Portuguese cooking, Ana highlights the fare through an encyclopedic look into her family's cooking and the country's history.
Embrace the flavors of Portugal and learn how to make all parts of a true Portuguese meal, from meats such as Madeiran Wine and Garlic Beef Kabobs, Mushroom-Stuffed Pork Tenderloin with Pomegranate Sauce and Saint Martin's Grilled Salt Cod with Potatoes, to sides of Sauted Kale with Pine Nuts and Onions and homemade bread. Ana's step-by-step guides to preparing and cooking present easy-to-follow methods for the most delicious results!
Discover why Portugal should be on every foodie's list of places to visit, even if it's in your own kitchen!
4. Madeira: The islands and their wines (The Classic Wine Library)
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Madeira wine is currently experiencing a renaissance. It is a wine that behaves like almost no other. Heat and air, the sworn enemies of most wines and winemakers, conspire to turn madeira into one of the most enthralling of the worlds wines as well as the most resilient. Madeira wines from the nineteenth and even the eighteenth centuries still retain an ethereal, youthful gloss. Once the cork is removed, the wine comes to no harm, even if the bottle is left open and on ullage for months on end. If ever there was a wine to take to a desert island, this is it.
Although Madeira was only discovered in the fifteenth century, the island and the wine trade have a long and involved history. After a short historical introduction Madeira: The islands and their wines rounds on the present: the physical character of the archipelago, the state of the vines and vineyards and the way in which the wines are made. A guide to the current producers follows along with a detailed appraisal of their range of wines. There is also a chapter for collectors of older wines, many from shippers that no longer exist but whose names live on in bottles of wine that are still found in cellars all over the world. Wines dating as far back as the eighteenth century are featured in the book, along with quality appraisals.
Madeira is without doubt one of the most difficult wines to describe but it is certainly the most uplifting. There is a short section on the language of tasting madeira as well as information on buying, keeping and serving the wines. The book concludes with a travel guide for anyone visiting the islands. This unique book on the islands and their wines explains what it is that makes madeira so special. Madeira: The islands and their wines was shortlisted for the Andr Simon Food and Drink Awards 2015.
5. Madeira, The Island Vineyard (Expanded Second Edition)
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For more than 500 years, Madeira has been made from the slopes of a volcanic island off the coast of Morocco. There was a time, in the late 1700s and early 1800s, when it was the English-speaking world's most revered beverage, but a century of vine calamities, wars and economic disasters nearly ended its production and caused a long descent into oblivion.Yet, Madeira's virtual immortality insured its eventual rediscovery. Today, we can still find bottles of Madeira made in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries whose vivid flavors and powerful aromas argue that this is among the world's greatest wines.
Of all the books ever written about Madeira, the most admired is Noel Cossart's Madeira, The Island Vineyard. Noel was the fourth, and final, generation of his family to manage Madeira's most important wine producer, Cossart, Gordon. He entered the firm in 1925 and managed it from 1936 until 1953, when economic conditions forced him to sell the firm's assets to the Madeira Wine Association.
When Noel retired from the wine business in 1976, his old friend from Christie's, Michael Broadbent, convinced him to draw on his long experience and deep family archives to write Madeira, The Island Vineyard, which was published by Christie's in 1984.
Noel's book was very warmly received. Yet, it had only one printing and soon became scarce even in second-hand bookstores. But with the new millennium, interest in Madeira has grown and so has demand for Noel's book. By the summer of 2010, the average asking price for the first edition of Madeira, The Island Vineyard on the antiquarian book market reached $500.
This richly illustrated new edition of Madeira, The Island Vineyard makes Noel's words available again. But it also benefits from extensive new material, including the first published history of Noel s own life; an unprecedented compilation of Madeira auction prices from the 1970s to the present, and Noel's private correspondence with several other wine scholars in the months following the book's 1984 publication.
Features include:
--The Madeira wine trade: 300 years of history
--Madeira in America
--Recollections of the Madeira shippers, 1700s-1900s
--Noel Cossart, A Life in Wine (new to the 2nd ed.)
--Vintage and solera Madeiras
--Important Madeira collections
--Important Madeira auctions (new to the 2nd ed.)
--Famous Madeira Tastings
--Notes on Madeira vintages, 1863-1981
--Noel Cossart's post-publication correspondence, 1984-85 (new to the 2nd ed.)
6. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Portugal
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Portugal is your in-depth guide to this beautiful country. Explore the magnificent Jernimos Monastery, sample some wine in Porto, and discover the best beaches, scenic routes, markets, and festivals the country has to offer.
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Detailed itineraries and "don't-miss" destination highlights at a glance.Illustrated cutaway 3-D drawings of important sights.
Floor plans and guided visitor information for major museums.
Guided walking tours, local drink and dining specialties to try, things to do, and places to eat, drink, and shop by area.
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Detailed city maps include street finder indexes for easy navigation.
Insights into history and culture to help you understand the stories behind the sights.
Hotel and restaurant listings highlight DK Choice special recommendations.
With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Portugal truly shows you this country as no one else can.
Recommended: For a pocket guidebook to Lisbon, check out DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Lisbon, which is packed with dozens of top 10 lists, ensuring you make the most of your time in the city.
Series Overview: For more than two decades, DK Eyewitness Travel Guides have helped travelers experience the world through the history, art, architecture, and culture of their destinations. Expert travel writers and researchers provide independent editorial advice, recommendations, and reviews. With guidebooks to hundreds of places around the globe available in print and digital formats, DK Eyewitness Travel Guides show travelers how they can discover more.
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7. Fodor's Portugal, 4th Edition: The Complete Guide with Madeira, the Best Algarve Beaches, Wine Country and Pous adas
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Experienced and first-time travelers alike rely on Fodor's Gold Guides for rich, reliable coverage the world over.Smart travel tips and important contact info make planning your trip a breeze, and detailed coverage of sights, accommodations, and restaurants give you the info you need to make your experience enriching and hassle-free.If you only have room for one guide, this is the one for you.The best guide to Portugal, completely updated
Rococo palaces awash in pastels, carved Manueline churches, and villages full of hand-painted azulejos and other ceramics
Golden beaches, verdant golf greens, and traditional horse-breeding farms and bullfighting arenas
Top places to sample port -- from adegas, where it's both business and pleasure, to bars filled with mournful fado music
Where to stay and eat, no matter what your budget
Romantic pousadas in converted castles and convents, luxurious resorts, and cosmopolitan hotels
Rustic taverns, baroque cafs, marisqueiras with the freshest seafood, and pastelarias with luscious pastries
Fresh, thorough, practical -- from writers you can trust
Costs, hours, descriptions, and tips by the thousands
All reviews based on visits by savvy correspondents
25 pages of maps, vacation itineraries, and more
Smart travel tips
Fodor's Choice
What's Where
Pleasures and Pastimes, with a section on wine
Festivals
Comprehensive index
8. Proof of Guilt: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery (Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries)
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Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard must contend with two dangerous enemies in New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd's Proof of Guilt.
Can Rutledge solve the apparent murder of a top wine merchant while dealing with interference from his superior, the new Acting Chief Superintendent?
Readers of Charles Todds Bess Crawford books and London-based Ian Rutledge mysteries will be thrilled with Proof of Guilt, clue by clue.
9. Oceans of Wine: Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
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This innovative book examines how, between 1640 and 1815, the Portuguese Madeira wine trade shaped the Atlantic world and American society. David Hancock painstakingly reconstructs the lives of producers, distributors, and consumers, as well as the economic and social structures created by globalizing commerce, to reveal an intricate interplay between individuals and market forces. Wine lovers and Madeira enthusiasts will enjoy Oceans of Wine, as will historians interested in food, colonial trade, and the history of the Atlantic region.
Using voluminous archives pertaining to wine, many of them previously unexamined, Hancock offers a dramatic new perspective on the economic and social development of the Atlantic world by challenging traditional interpretations that have identified states and empires as the driving force behind trade. He demonstrates convincingly just how decentralized the early modern commercial system was, as well as how self-organized, a system that emerged from the actions of market participants working across imperial lines. The networks they formed began as commercial structures and expanded into social and political systems that were conduits not only for wine but also for ideas about reform, revolution, and independence.
10. The Geography of Wine: How Landscapes, Cultures, Terroir, and the Weather Make a Good Drop
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Wine is more than taste, smell, and appearanceit is a reflection of a place and its people. Why is Bordeaux a great place for red wines? Why do some places produce Rieslings and others produce Chardonnay? A fun and fascinating examination ofterroir(the French word for the geography of a vineyard) this book takes connoisseursand potential connoisseurson a tour of wine regions, and explains the principles geographers use to understand the critical factors that make up the wine character of a place.From the Loire Valley to Napa Valley, Madeira to South Africa, Australia to Chile,The Geography of Wineis an entertaining and informative introduction to viticulture for worldly wine lovers everywhere.
11. Madeira (Classic Wine Library)
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Madeira is one of the world's great wines, with a history that few others can equal. It is a wine of legend. For centuries it was the wine of connoisseurs on both sides of the Atlantic, and venerable bottles still remain in private cellars, for it is a wine that lives practically for ever. Lately it has experienced some years in the wilderness, but now a world-wide resurgence in the popularity of Madeira is under way. Yet little has been published about the wine or its history. This book sets out both in detail and will enable the many varieties of wine available to be enjoyed for their merits and in their historical context.12. The Land of the Wine, Vol. 1: Being an Account of the Madeira Islands at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century and From a New Point of View; With ... Island of Madeira, Showing the Mountains an
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Excerpt from The Land of the Wine, Vol. 1: Being an Account of the Madeira Islands at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century and From a New Point of View; With Thirty-Eight Full-Page Illustrations; Maps of Funchal and of the Island of Madeira, Showing the Mountains and Their Heights; And a SectionIn preparing this work it has been the writer's aim to present a faithful and reliable description of the Madeiras, and to treat their history as somewhat distinct from that of the mother-country, Portugal, with which, it is believed, they have heretofore been too closely associated by historians.
In styling the natives of these islands Madeirans the author has furthermore departed from the custom of all previous writers on the subject, who have called them Portuguese, an appellation which the natives themselves resent. For this divergence from the usual course the following reason is offered.
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13. The Phelps Family and the Wine Trade in 19th Century Madeira: The Story from their Letters
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William Phelps moved to Madeira with his wife in 1784 to participate in the wine trade, along with a number of other British merchants. It was a family business in all senses of the word. Three of Williams sons continued to produce and export Madeira wine until the 1860s. One of them, Joseph, lived there with his family for more than forty years and their diaries and correspondence reveal much about their social life, as well as business affairs. We have transcribed more than 500 letters written by three generations of the family. Selections from the letters form the basis of this present volume and are designed specifically to introduce English readers in Madeira to the role of the Phelps family during the 18th and 19th centuries. Williams son-in-law, Robert Page, did much for the inhabitants of Madeira during the time he ran the House and was honoured by the King of Portugal. Joseph and Elizabeth were also philanthropists who founded two schools and she planted many trees to restore deforested areas. Their daughter Bella brought Madeira lace and embroidery to the notice of the wider world at great benefit to the local people. All the family spoke Portuguese which was unusual for expatriots. The letters describe the rigours of reaching the island by sailing ship and coping with outbreaks of disease before an understanding of the cause was possible. There was a scandal in Madeira involving the English church in Funchal and the Reverend Richard Lowe, a famous naturalist whose religious views were based on those of the Oxford Movement. He managed to antagonise half the British community. The Reverend Lowe and Dr Ross went on adventurous trips with Elizabeth Phelps into the high mountains and the letters describe travelling by hammock up precipitous slopes and camping in rocky places. Singing and the playing of musical instruments were important to the family and formed part of the many social events that took place in Funchal. All Joseph and Elizabeths eleven children lived into their sixties and beyond. Their later lives and careers are described in the final chapter.14. Madeira (Faber Books on Wine)