Madeira is a fortified wine made on the Portuguese island of Madeira, in the North Atlantic Ocean, just under 400 kilometres (250 mi) north of the Canary Islands, Spain and 520 kilometres (320 mi) west of Morocco. Madeira is produced in a variety of styles ranging from dry wines, which can be consumed on their own, as an apéritif, to sweet wines usually consumed with dessert. Lower-priced Madeira is also used for cooking; when intended for cooking and not drinking, it is often flavoured with salt and pepper.
From the Wikipedia article Madeira wine, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Madeira is a wine region, Portugal. We track 451 of its wines in stock at 64 shops, from 79 wine houses, from € 4.49; mostly fortified, red, white.
- Country
- Portugal
- In our wines
- Malvasia, Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tempranillo, Arinto
- Classifications
- Reserva 61 · Grande Reserva 9 · Colheita 2
- Styles
- Fortified 283 · Red 92 · White 71 · Rosé 3 · Dessert 2
- Prices
- from € 4.49 · median € 31.47 / 75 cl
Vintages
per year: wines in stock, prices, and the critics' scores the shops quote| Vintage | Wines | From | Median / 75 cl | Critics' score | Growing season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | – | – | – | – | warmso far +0.6 °C · 1,998 GDD · 97 % rain |
| 2025 | 1 | € 36.80 | € 36.80 | – | average +0.4 °C · 2,339 GDD · 95 % rain |
| 2024 | 12 | € 4.89 | € 7.25 | – | warmdrydry harvest +0.6 °C · 2,381 GDD · 46 % rain |
| 2023 | 20 | € 5.50 | € 19.90 | – | hot +1.5 °C · 2,567 GDD · 96 % rain |
| 2022 | 29 | € 7.20 | € 24.80 | – | average +0.1 °C · 2,260 GDD · 104 % rain |
| 2021 | 24 | € 4.49 | € 21.87 | – | averagedry +0.4 °C · 2,332 GDD · 44 % rain |
| 2020 | 12 | € 9.70 | € 18.49 | – | average +0.3 °C · 2,322 GDD · 90 % rain |
| 2019 | 14 | € 10.00 | € 30.50 | 94.0 (1 wine) | averagedrydry harvest +0.1 °C · 2,278 GDD · 46 % rain |
| 2018 | 6 | € 14.20 | € 32.45 | – | averagedry harvest −0.4 °C · 2,167 GDD · 76 % rain |
| 2017 | 1 | € 484.24 | € 484.24 | 99.0 (1 wine) | averagedrydry harvest +0.2 °C · 2,296 GDD · 65 % rain |
| 2016 | 5 | € 18.90 | € 22.50 | – | averagedry harvest −0.1 °C · 2,229 GDD · 78 % rain |
| 2015 | 2 | € 46.66 | € 60.08 | – | averagewet harvest ±0.0 °C · 2,248 GDD · 129 % rain |
| 2014 | 2 | € 17.97 | € 42.49 | – | average +0.2 °C · 2,282 GDD · 72 % rain |
| 2013 | 3 | € 35.95 | € 70.00 | – | average −0.4 °C · 2,164 GDD · 82 % rain |
| 2012 | 2 | € 18.90 | € 27.95 | – | warm +0.6 °C · 2,381 GDD · 98 % rain |
| 2011 | 1 | € 342.00 | € 342.00 | – | averagedrydry harvest −0.2 °C · 2,196 GDD · 66 % rain |
| 2010 | 2 | € 34.78 | € 93.59 | – | averagewet harvest −0.2 °C · 2,199 GDD · 96 % rain |
| 2009 | – | – | – | – | averagedry +0.1 °C · 2,267 GDD · 47 % rain |
| 2008 | 1 | € 25.50 | € 25.50 | – | averagewet harvest +0.1 °C · 2,267 GDD · 102 % rain |
| 2007 | 3 | € 49.00 | € 53.39 | – | coolwet −0.5 °C · 2,144 GDD · 173 % rain |
| 2006 | – | – | – | – | average +0.2 °C · 2,297 GDD · 114 % rain |
| 2005 | 1 | € 31.00 | € 31.00 | – | averagewetdry harvest ±0.0 °C · 2,240 GDD · 158 % rain |
| 2004 | – | – | – | – | average +0.4 °C · 2,325 GDD · 112 % rain |
| 2003 | 1 | € 73.59 | € 73.59 | – | averagewetwet harvest +0.3 °C · 2,321 GDD · 188 % rain |
| 2002 | – | – | – | – | averagewetwet harvest −0.3 °C · 2,184 GDD · 154 % rain |
| 2001 | 2 | € 56.06 | € 68.11 | – | warm +0.5 °C · 2,366 GDD · 73 % rain |
| 2000 | 2 | € 100.00 | € 145.00 | – | cooldry harvest −0.5 °C · 2,144 GDD · 75 % rain |
| 1999 | 1 | € 40.00 | € 80.00 | – | averagedry +0.2 °C · 2,297 GDD · 62 % rain |
| 1998 | 2 | € 34.30 | € 43.85 | – | average −0.1 °C · 2,219 GDD · 79 % rain |
| 1997 | 2 | € 79.90 | € 137.45 | – | averagewet +0.2 °C · 2,299 GDD · 148 % rain |
| 1996 | 1 | € 69.44 | € 104.16 | – | average −0.1 °C · 2,229 GDD · 82 % rain |
| 1995 | 1 | € 219.40 | € 219.40 | – | warm +0.6 °C · 2,387 GDD · 104 % rain |
| 1994 | 2 | € 219.40 | € 248.27 | – | average −0.3 °C · 2,179 GDD · 126 % rain |
| 1993 | 4 | € 241.30 | € 312.00 | – | cool −0.6 °C · 2,128 GDD · 116 % rain |
| 1992 | – | – | – | – | average −0.3 °C · 2,178 GDD · 117 % rain |
| 1991 | – | – | – | – | average −0.4 °C · 2,165 GDD · 71 % rain |
| 1990 | – | – | – | – | averagewet harvest +0.2 °C · 2,293 GDD · 104 % rain |
| 1989 | – | – | – | – | warmwet harvest +0.5 °C · 2,352 GDD · 92 % rain |
| 1988 | 3 | € 259.00 | € 275.19 | – | average −0.2 °C · 2,209 GDD · 83 % rain |
| 1987 | – | – | – | – | averagewet harvest +0.3 °C · 2,321 GDD · 122 % rain |
| 1986 | 1 | € 435.00 | € 435.00 | – | coolwet harvest −0.6 °C · 2,125 GDD · 101 % rain |
| 1985 | – | – | – | – | averagedrydry harvest −0.1 °C · 2,233 GDD · 58 % rain |
| 1984 | 1 | € 390.00 | € 390.00 | – | cooldry −0.6 °C · 2,115 GDD · 59 % rain |
| 1983 | 1 | € 122.00 | € 122.00 | – | average −0.4 °C · 2,164 GDD · 96 % rain |
| 1982 | – | – | – | – | averagedry −0.4 °C · 2,154 GDD · 70 % rain |
Growing season (April–October; October–April south of the equator): mean temperature against Madeira's 1991–2020 normal (hot: 1 °C or more above, warm: 0.5 °C, cool/cold below), growing degree days (warmth for the vines, base 10 °C) and rain against normal, with the harvest month (September/March) flagged when very wet or dry. Monthly data from NASA POWER (MERRA-2) at one point in the region. The current year is compared with the same months of a normal year (“so far”); its latest months are preliminary and revised by NASA later.
Critics' score: the average of the best 100-point score quoted for each wine of that vintage, as the shops quote them. A few quoted wines make a thin average; the number of wines is in brackets.
Blandy's 31 · Blandy’s Madeira 30 · Barbeito 28 · Henriques & Henriques 24 · Barbeito Madeira 20 · Justino's Madeira 11 · H.M. Borges 10 · Bovey Wines 9 · Justino 9 · Antonio Madeira 7 · D'Oliveiras 7 · Blandy Brothers & Co.Ltd. 5 · Quinta de Lemos 5 · Herdade Papa Leite 4 · Messias 4 · Fortified : Madeira 4