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A Week In Madeira – 1. Tasting At H.M. Borges

It is mid-October and I am spending a week in Madeira doing what I do best – eating, drinking and watching the world go by. The drink here is madeira and my first taste of madeira in Madeira was at H.M. Borges in Funchal    Madeira is an odd wine and there is nothing like it anywhere in the rest of the wine world.  What is unique about madeira is the way it is made. Fermentation is stopped by…