July 2010 — “The book that represents the most heroic undertaking in the name of Madeira wine history is not only by an American, it focuses on America's place in this wine's Rich History. David Hancock finally published Oceans of Wine this past fall, having been researching it (by his own account) for seventeen years ... And so Oceans of Wine is fundamentally different from all the other books that have added to our knowledge of Madeira.”

- Mannie Berk, Wayward Tendrils Quarterly