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Adegas de São Francisco
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Diogos Wine Shop
Wine Outlets
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Adegas de São Francisco,
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Artur de Barros e Sousa,
Funchal
The St Francis Wine Lodge offers
free tastings and 30-minute
tours of its attics. For more in-
depth information, take a special
Vintage Tour
(see pp12-13)
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Diogos Wine Shop,
Funchal
Known as ABS, this is one of
Madeira's smallest producers; so
small, in fact, that the brothers
who run it sell only to “friends”
- fortunately, this includes anyone
who walks through the door.
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Rua
dos Ferreiros 109 • Map N3 • 291 220 622
Funchal
This friendly wine shop has a
surprise in the basement - a
Christopher Columbus museum,
put together by Mário Barbeito,
founder of the Barbeito wine
company in 1946. It also has a
display of antique postcards and
books about Madeira.
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Avenida
Arriaga 48 • Map P2 • 291 233 357
Wine barrels, Artur de Barros e Sousa
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D'Oliveiras, Funchal
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Vinhos Barbeito, Funchal
Housed in a charming timber
barn with a cobblestone floor
and a carved stone door that
bears the city's coat of arms and
the date AD 1619, this wine
lodge offers vintages going back
to 1850, as well as younger
wines, miniatures and gift boxes.
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Rua dos Ferreiros 107 • Map N3
• 291 220 784
Founded by Sr Barbeito, this
wine lodge, with its distinctive
chimney for the
estufa
, the “hot-
house” that ages the wine, is
tucked away behind Reid's
Palace Hotel. The tasting room is
at the rear, beyond the giant,
iron-hooped barrels of American
oak and satinwood.
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Estrada Mon-
umental 145 • Map H6 • 291 761 829
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Loja dos Vinhos, Funchal
Conveniently located in the
heart of the hotel district, and
open late for last-minute gift pur-
chases, this wine shop sells the
vintages of all of Madeira's main
producers, including some rare
bottles that date from the 19th
century. They will also take tele-
phone orders and make hotel
deliveries.
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Edifício Eden Mar, Loja 19,
Rua do Gorgulho • Map G6 • 291 762 869
Inspecting for sediment, Vinhos Barbeito
In 1925, the Adegas de São Francisco became the headquarters
of the recently formed Madeira Wine Company.
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