I knew the Madeira would be pretty, but I wasn’t prepared as to just how much which I visited earlier this year. Every corner of my eye was on to something new and staggering which made my report more of a gift than actual work. It’s for this that I’m duly impressed by the second edition of Richard Mayson’s Madeira: The islands and their wines (plural as it includes neighboring Porto Santo) which is his putting to text the literal decades he’s spent visting the island and studying the wines. […]

