-PHOTO TAKEN 13OCT04- A worker knocks on a cask of maturing Madeira wine to check the level in the storage area of the Vinhos Barbeito wine company in Funchal, the capital of the Portuguese island of Madeira, October 18, 2004. Madeira wine has a long history. [It was exported around the world soon after Portuguese explorers Joao Goncalves Zarco and Tristao Vaz Teixeira discovered the island of Madeira in 1418. The early settlers produced wines from abundant vines on the lush semi-tropical island and exported it in barrels in sailing ships to India, passing over the equator and subjecting the wine to sizzling temperatures.]