Acknowledgements | p. xi |
Preface | p. xiii |
Introduction | p. xix |
The History of the Wine | |
Early History | p. 3 |
Discovery, colonization and land tenure | p. 3 |
Early development and trade | p. 5 |
The first wine | p. 5 |
The sixteenth century | p. 7 |
The character of the wine | p. 11 |
Madeira Comes of Age | p. 14 |
The seventeenth century | p. 14 |
The wine | p. 17 |
The character of the wine | p. 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | p. 24 |
The development of trade | p. 24 |
Fraud and increasing regulation | p. 26 |
The British influence | p. 29 |
Fortification | p. 30 |
Estufagem | p. 31 |
Viticulture | p. 33 |
The wine | p. 36 |
The Nineteenth Century I | p. 39 |
The unpopular British | p. 39 |
Boom and bust | p. 40 |
Disaster looms | p. 42 |
The first crisis | p. 49 |
The Nineteenth Century II | p. 55 |
The second crisis | p. 55 |
Viticulture and the wine | p. 59 |
The Twentieth Century | p. 67 |
Changing markets and the German 'threat' | p. 67 |
Developing control of the trade | p. 69 |
The inter-war years | p. 71 |
Climbing out of the doldrums | p. 73 |
Modern times | p. 76 |
Viticulture and the Wine | |
The Soil and the Grapes | p. 81 |
The soil | p. 81 |
The grapes of Madeira | p. 82 |
Vitis vinifera | p. 83 |
The recommended varieties | p. 87 |
The authorized varieties | p. 91 |
The direct producers | p. 93 |
The Vineyards | p. 96 |
Where are the vineyards? | p. 96 |
The Torre Bella Estate | p. 97 |
The Faja dos Padres | p. 99 |
The present situation | p. 102 |
The Douro comes to Madeira | p. 104 |
Porto Santo | p. 105 |
Vineyards round the island | p. 106 |
Viticulture and the Vintage | p. 111 |
Old vineyards | p. 111 |
New vineyards | p. 114 |
The Servicos de Producao Agricola | p. 115 |
The vintage | p. 116 |
Making and Maturing the Wine | p. 121 |
Vinification | p. 121 |
Generic wine | p. 122 |
Varietal madeiras | p. 128 |
Maturing the wine | p. 129 |
From Cask to Customer | p. 134 |
Official classification of wines | p. 134 |
Blending | p. 137 |
Legal controls | p. 139 |
Today's Madeiras | p. 143 |
The characteristics of madeira | p. 143 |
Generic madeiras | p. 146 |
3 year old madeiras | p. 147 |
5 year old madeiras | p. 147 |
10 and 15 year old madeiras | p. 148 |
Old soleras | p. 149 |
Vintage wines | p. 150 |
Notes on Some Vintage Madeiras | p. 158 |
The Shippers | |
The Shippers | p. 185 |
Artur de Barros e Sousa, Lda | p. 185 |
H. M. Borges, Sucrs., Lda | p. 188 |
Henriques and Henriques | p. 190 |
The Madeira Wine Company, SA | p. 194 |
Pereira d'Oliveira (Vinhos), Lda | p. 202 |
Silva Vinhos, Lda | p. 203 |
Vinhos Barbeito (Madeira), Lda | p. 205 |
Vinhos Justino Henriques, Filhos, Lda | p. 210 |
Other firms | p. 212 |
The Future | |
The Future | p. 217 |
Maps | p. 225 |
Appendices | p. 231 |
Madeira: Some Basic Information | p. 235 |
Control of the Wine Industry | p. 239 |
Exports during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | p. 242 |
Production and Exports, 1980-1995 | p. 243 |
The 1792 Vintage and the Napoleon Madeira | p. 246 |
Vidonho and Vidonia: An Unsolved Mystery | p. 250 |
The Condell Innes Notebook | p. 256 |
Suppliers | p. 258 |
Notes | p. 261 |
Glossary | p. 280 |
Bibliography | p. 284 |
Index | p. 288 |
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