Thomas Jefferson on wine / John Hailman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hailman, John R., 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wine and wine making--Virginia--Albemarle County.

Wine and wine making.

Monticello (Va.).

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Knowledge--Wine.

Jefferson, Thomas.

Physical Description:

xvi, 457 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Thomas Jefferson on Wine , John Hailman celebrates a founding father's lifelong interest in wine and provides unprecedented insight into Jefferson's character from this unique perspective. In both his personal and public lives, Jefferson wielded his considerable expertise to influence the drinking habits of his friends, other founding fathers, and the American public away from hard liquor toward the healthier pleasures of wine. An international wine judge and nationally syndicated wine columnist, Hailman discusses how Jefferson's tastes developed, which wines and foods he preferred at different stages of his life, and how Jefferson became the greatest wine expert of the early American republic. Hailman explores the third president's fascination with scores of wines from his student days at Williamsburg to his lengthy retirement years at Monticello, often using Jefferson's own words from hundreds of immensely readable and surprisingly modern letters on the subject. A new epilogue covers the ongoing saga of the alleged wine swindle involving bottles of Bordeaux purported to belong to Jefferson.

Contents:

Early wines

Thomas Jefferson goes to Paris

Jefferson stocks his Paris wine cellar

Jefferson tours and tastes in the vineyards of the Rhine, the Mosel, and Champagne

The return to America

Wine in the president's house

Retirement at Monticello.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-437) and index.

ISBN:

1-60473-138-9

OCLC:

646839037