marble.com is a very helpful site to decide about choosing granite, you can choose cabinet stain and then can match with the wide variety of granites. Hope it helps.

What I learned while granite shopping is that you have to go slab-by-slab. The Madura you are looking at may well be a completely different animal than the one someone else has.

Case in point: I used to loooooove Dakota Mahogany: it was dark reddish brown with some black specks and blue sparks. The last slab I saw was a pale pinkish gray.

Another example: New colonial dream at one yard was nearly white with charcoal graining, at the next it looked a lot like the Capella I ended up with-- swirled carmel and chocolate tones with large quartz inclusions.

At best, you can occasionally make generalizations along the lines of 'If it looks like Uba Tuba, it will probably be stain proof', but that's about as far as I'd go.

You can start with either the stone or the stain and choose the other to work with that. But buy the actual slab in front of you, not the hypothetical one due in from China at the end of the month.

I love Madura gold too. Madura gold is a warmer color
where NVG or Santa Ceceilia has a cooler cast to the color
making it look nice with white cabinets or cooler shade
cabinets. It truly depends on the slab you are looking at.
All the granites you like would look beautiful
with the cabinet color you have chosen.
I found a few inspiration pics that maybe can help you
visualize. Now you will have to think of edge style. : )
All very exciting in your new kitchen.

Have you been to FKB yet? It is a great place to visit
on GW to see the finished kitchens. It helps to see
how the stone might look with your color cabinets.

And do a search of your color granite on the
search option of GW. That will give you a chance to
see how others have chosen and what they are doing.
All excellent ideas when planning your own kitchen.

Enjoy your kitchen journey.
~boxerpups

Graniteconcepts Madura Gold

equisitecertified Madura Gold
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auburncustomcabinets Madura Gold

stoneedgeworks MG

Santa Cecilia momaxmarble

Sensiblechic

Supremesurface SC (seams to be one with more movement)

new venteian gold from Garden Web

You have a different cab color but this is a lovely
stone NVG

NVG

NVG again a different color cab but very nice

NVG