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Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Madeira
From: WayneS <olympus@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:06:27 -0500
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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