New Madeira Colheita and Vintage Releases: four outstanding wines.
Madeira's annual Wine Festival is timed to coincide with the start of harvest (a long, stop-start affair that usually lasts from August to October, given the number of different grapes and meso-climates on the island). This year looks like being a promising harvest, especially for Verdelho and Bual but one where demand is constrained by the Covid pandemic and the decline in numbers of tourists visiting Madeira and Porto Santo. Given the continuing uncertainly and the fact that stock levels are currently high, wine producers are reluctant to buy up grapes this year.