A mosaic of scents and colours

Are you familiar with Madeira? Among connoisseurs, it is regarded as the ultimate in wines. It was over a glass of Boal that two Belgians developed a taste for it. They bought a collection of rare Madeiras at auction and thus entered the Madeira business. The idea was to launch a new collection alongside the old Madeiras, released annually and numbered from 2011 onwards. Consequently, the first wine in the Madeira Collection was named ‘1’ . Since then, Alessandri Design & Marken Manufaktur has been designing every subsequent vintage label for the unlimited Madeira Collection.

The on-site visit to the wild, flower-filled island in the middle of the Atlantic was a riot of colour. Cordula visited the producer of the Madeira Collection and met Ricardo Diogo V. Freitas and his Barbeito Madeira. Another success story …