Passions : the wines and travels of Thomas Jefferson James M. Gabler

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gabler, James M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Travel.

Jefferson, Thomas.

Wine and wine making--Europe.

Wine and wine making.

Europe--Description and travel.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xv, 318 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Bacchus Press, 1995.

Summary:

This is a biography of Thomas Jefferson at leisure, enjoying two of his passions--wine and travel. Twelve of the sixteen chapters cover Jefferson's five years in France where he served as our minister and traveled through France, England, Germany, Italy and Holland. "Passions" was selected by Robert M. Parker, Jr. as "1995 Wine Book of the Year," and was the winner of the 1995 "Veuve Clicquot Wine Book of the Year" competition. It is a marvelous account of America's first wine connoisseur and gourmet.--Amazon.com.

Contents:

Emerging passions

Jefferson in Paris

London and the English countryside

A romantic interlude

Burgundy and the wine country

The Rhone Valley and its wines

A peep into Elysium: Roman grandeur

Italy and the Riviera

Provence and Languedoc

Bordeaux its wines and vineyards

The wine connoisseur

Holland, the Rhine Valley and Champagne

The French revolution begins

Secretary of State and wine consultant

Wines in the White House

The vintage years

Chapter notes

Appendix A: Jefferson's favorite wines- available today

Appendix B: the White House wine cellar with annotations

Appendix C: currency values- equivalents

Appendix D: wine measures

Appendix E: Jefferson's travel box with comments

Glossary

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0961352531

9780961352530

OCLC:

34042201