Food & Wine
Espetada, bolo do caco, poncha and the fortified wine that made the island famous.
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Food & Wine
Madeira Wine
A fortified wine unique in being deliberately heated as it matures, Madeira ranges from bone-dry Sercial to lusciously sweet Malmsey, ages for a century or more, and once toasted American independence.
Food & WineMadeiran Cuisine
Rustic and generous, Madeiran cooking centres on espetada beef skewers, garlicky bolo do caco flatbread, and black scabbardfish served with banana — washed down with poncha and Madeira wine.
Food & WinePoncha
Madeira's beloved traditional drink: sugarcane spirit muddled with honey and lemon using a wooden caralhinho, born among the fishermen of Câmara de Lobos and now poured all over the island.