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What Wine Goes with the Fourth of July?

On Saturday morning while watching our Fourth of July parade in Fredericksburg, Texas, I was wondering what wine would be appropriate for our national birthday party. In this day of modern electronic communications, what better consultant to have than www.Google.com.  Just like that, I had the obvious selection…Madeira!

One website, intowine.com (http://www.intowine.com/4th-july-wine-whats-ideal-wine-celebrate-independence-day) gave the simple justification featured below:

“There is one wine that surely must be the choice for the fourth of July – Madeira. Madeira is the wine that was used by the Founding Fathers to Toast the Declaration of Independence. Betsy Ross had a side table with a glass on it when she was sewing the flag. It was used to Toast the Constitution and George Washington drank a pint of Madeira every day for dinner. It is also very convenient because Madeira cannot be harmed by the hot sun and the July heat. I vote that Madeira be adopted as the OFFICIAL July 4th beverage. By the way, it is very important to drink TRUE Madeira from the island of Madeira and not confuse it with wines that are made in America for cooking. True Madeira is heated to simulate the voyage between Europe and America when the wine was used as ballast in the boat holds, where they discovered that the intense heat improved the wine.”

Don’t Miss Haak Vineyards Madeira

If you are interested in tasting some fine Madeira-style wines made in the same traditional Estuffa oven method of the island of Madeira while keeping your hard earned dollars in the two hundred plus year old “US of A”, I suggest another option. Aim your taste buds at Haak Vineyard and Winery (www.haakwine.com) in Santa Fe (Galveston County), Texas. In fact, there are two options: Haak Jacquez Madeira (made from the red Black Spanish grape) and Haak Blanc du Bois Madeira (made from white grape of the same name).

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