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
Word History
Etymology
Middle English malmesey, from Medieval Latin Malmasia Monemvasia, village in Greece where a sweet wine was produced