TWO HARBORS — Madeira Bistro was packed on a Thursday afternoon. Named after the 1905 Madeira shipwreck and the subsequent saving of its crew, the history of this spot's namesake is written proudly ...

Portugal’s Madeira island is shaking off its image as your grandparents’ vacation destination. (Though they’re still welcome, of course, and hotels in Funchal are still serving high tea.) Interesting ...

I felt the winter cold coming on last week, and so I stocked up my cellar with some nice fortified wines. Then it suddenly turned to spring, and I broke out the Pinot Grigio. My wine choices are ...

Obscure these days, Madeira once was the most popular wine in America. How did the tiny Portuguese archipelago of that name come to produce the most prestigious wines, then fall out of favor? Madeira ...

There are plenty of battles being waged in the field of historic preservation, but almost everyone agrees that Madeira – the fortified wine that eighteenth-century Charleston famously adored – ought ...

A stop in Zurich brings an indulgence in Switzerland’s most iconic treat—chocolate—before the journey continues back to the ...