Definitely serious on the wine. I've heard the wine is a specialty there.
How cold is the water there, any good snorkeling or diving?
Wayne
At 11/7/2011 01:59 AM, you wrote:
>Thanks, Wayne.
>
>In case you were serious about the wine, yes we did. A colleague who is a
>former wine buyer, recommended checking a few vineyards for wine-tasting
>purposes. But there are 40,000 vineyards on Madeira, mostly small, almost
>alotments. And there are only 5 buyers/exporters, old families, I should
>guess. So we'll try the wine tours next time, but we did try some Sercial and
>some Bual wines and they are fine. While we were there we drank mostly
>Alentejo and Douro wines.
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