Our editors' picks for the essential Madera wineries and tasting rooms, and why each one earns the stop.
Every list like this is an argument. Ours favors rooms that express what makes Madera itself: America's benchmark port-style and dessert wines, plus Muscats, Portuguese varieties and a growing table-wine bench.
The anchor is easy: Ficklin Vineyards, America's oldest port-style house, pouring complimentary tastings since 1946.
Ficklin then Quady, back to back: the port pioneer and the sweet-wine specialist explain the whole region in two stops
Day one: the valley-floor trail, Ficklin, Quady, San Joaquin. Day two: the Highway 41 climb, Dorval's foothills to Idle Hour's kitchen in Oakhurst
Every winery we track in the region, each with its own page.
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