title: Madeira, The Island Vineyard (Expanded Second Edition)
author: Noel Cossart
description: The definitive book on the magical wines of this obscure atlantic island ... Manny Berk of the Rare Wine Company ... has now, to our infinite gratitude, produced a handsome second edition of Madeira, The Island Vineyard. It comes with a number of very useful appendices, not least a marvelously comprehensive list of the prices vintage and old solera madeiras have fetched at auction over the years. --Clive Coates, MW (May 2011)<br /><br />2011 Winner (European Wine) --Gourmand World Cookbook Awards<br /><br />2011 Winner (European Wine) --Gourmand World Cookbook Awards<br /><br />2011 Winner (European Wine) --Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
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  # In Madeira Place
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Heman White Chaplin
  
  
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  IN MADEIRA PLACE
  
  
  1887
  
  
  By Heman White Chaplin
  
  
  Turning from the street which follows the line of the wharves, into
  
  
  Madeira Place, you leave at once an open region of docks and spars for
  
  
  comparative retirement. Wagons seldom enter Madeira Place: it is too
  
  
  hard to turn them in it; and then the inhabitants, for the most part,
  
  
  have a convenient way of buying their coal by the basket. How much
  
  
  trouble it would save, if we would all buy our coal by the basket!
  
  
  A few doors up the place a passageway makes off to the right,
  
  
  through a high wooden gate that is usually open; and at the upper
  
  
  corner of this passage stands a brick house, whose perpetually closed
  
  
  blinds suggest the owner's absence. But the householders of Madeira
  
  
  Place do not absent themselves, eve