Blandy's Wine Lodge
Historic Madeira wine lodge with oak-cask ageing rooms, cooperage, museum and tastings of rare vintages.
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This guide to Blandy's Wine Lodge in Funchal, Madeira, starts in seventeen ninety-four with a man named Pantaleão Fernandes and a puzzle the island's wine trade had been living with for years: why wine sent across the tropics came home better than it left. It moves between ships' holds, heated stores and the ageing rooms of this lodge, built on the ground of an old Franciscan convent. Best heard among the casks, under the dark beams.
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