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Madeira takes its name from the island of Madeira, which sits in...
TU-ChristiesMadeira takes its name from the island of Madeira, which sits in the Atlantic about 380 miles west of Morocco. It was discovered in 1419 by the Portuguese mariner João Gonçalves Zarco in the service of Prince Henry the Navigator. Malvasia vines were planted around 1453, and as ships stopped at the island on their way to the New World in subsequent decades, they invariably loaded barrels of wine as ballast for their voyages.
This Verdelho, Antigo Pico e Saloes 1830 is offered in our Finest and Rarest Wines on 11 November 2016 at Christie’s Geneva.
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