July 2000 — “No wonder it was the favorite of the Revolutionaries—and all the rage well into the 1800’s … Emanuel Berk, Madeira specialist and founder of The Rare Wine Company, who has researched the subject exhaustively to document the rarified old Madeiras his firm has purchased. ‘If they toasted with anything,’ he says of the Founding Fathers, ‘it probably was Madeira.’”