Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An individual holding a glass of fortified wine. - Alexander Spatari/Getty Images If you're a devoted wine enthusiast who gets ...

A favorite of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, Madeira has a history as rich as its flavors.

Fortified wines have gotten a bad rap in certain circles. "People associate fortified wines with cheap quality and sort of lesser-made products," as bar manager Lee Carrell told Eater. But this ...

Portugal has given the wine world plenty of iconic bottles, but few are as misunderstood as Port and Madeira. Both are ...

Port is a sweet fortified wine made in the Douro region, near the city of Porto on the Atlantic in northern Portugal. It uses predominantly local red grapes like Touriga Franca and Tinta Roriz, among ...

For many people, the only encounter they might have had with Marsala was the chicken dish they had in the Italian restaurant when they didn’t feel like pasta. But Marsala is for more than cooking.

As the name indicates, fortified wines are wines that have been strengthened by adding some kind of spirit. Originally the goal was to make the wine last for long journeys by halting the fermentation ...

Delicious fortified wines like Port or Madeira are a relative bargain compared with non-fortified reds and whites, and what makes them perfect for the long holiday season is their ability to deliver ...

At the mention of fortified wine, aperitifs and desserts often come to mind. It's typical to pour a glass of sherry or Americano aperitif before dinner or a glass of Port to enjoy as a dessert wine, ...

Wines can be divided into six categories: white, red, rosé, sparkling, dessert and fortified. There are sub-divisions, but this is an effort to make wine simpler, not more complicated. And, as you ...

Forget the image of an ancient bottle of port collecting dust in your grandparents' liquor cabinet. For imbibers in the know, fortified wine, which is a wine that's been combined with a distilled ...