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Fortified

Every fortified page in the Academy — written from primary sources, linked to bottles you can actually buy.

Terraced plots and houses climbing the steep green hillsides above Funchal on the island of Madeira.Level 3Madeira and Marsala Two island fortified wines: Madeira, heat-aged and nearly indestructible, and Sicily's Marsala, graded by age and swe... Terraced vineyards climbing steep slopes above a bend of the Douro River at Pinhão, Portugal.Level 3Port The Douro's fortified wine: brandy stops fermentation for natural sweetness, then ruby styles age in bottle and tawni... Long aisle between stacked oak port casks in a dim port wine cellar.Level 2Fortified Wine Wine strengthened with grape spirit: why it started, how timing sets sweetness, and how Port, sherry, Madeira and Mar... Rows of dark oak sherry butts beneath the whitewashed horseshoe arches of a large bodega in Jerez de la Frontera.Level 3Sherry Andalusia's fortified wine from Palomino on white albariza soil: flor-aged fino and manzanilla, oxidative oloroso, an...

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