Recent Examples on the WebCheap Madeira is generally made out of a blend of grapes, but the best bottles tend to come from four principal grapes in ascending order from driest to sweetest: sercial, verdelho, bual and malmsey, which is better known elsewhere as malvasia.—Eric Asimov, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2016
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English malmesey, from Medieval Latin Malmasia Monemvasia, village in Greece where a sweet wine was produced
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