Thomas Jefferson on Wine

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	Thomas Jefferson on Wine
	by John Hailman Sales Rank: 7542	~~List Price: $38.00~~ $25.08 At Amazon on 8-1-2008.

*Features* Cover Type: Hard Cover with 457 pages Published by: University Press of Mississippi November 2006 Written in: English ISBN 10 Number: 157806841X ISBN 13 Number: 978-1578068418 Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.6 inches Weighs: 2.2 pounds *Book Description* In Thomas Jefferson On Wine, John Hailman celebrates a founding fathers talents as a wine connoisseur and provides unprecedented insight into a seldom explored facet of this great man. In both his personal and public lives, Jefferson wielded his considerable expertise and influence to change the views of his friends, fellow founding fathers, and the American public on the pleasures and refinements of wine. An international wine judge and former wine columnist for the Washington Post, Hailman discusses the particular wines Jefferson sought, the ways in which Jeffersons tastes developed, and how Jefferson became one of the great wine connoisseurs of the early American republic. His recommendations governed the presidents table before and after his tenure there. Thomas Jefferson on Wine explores the third presidents fascination with scores of wines from his student days at Williamsburg to his lengthy retirement years at Monticello, using mainly Jeffersons own vivid words from hundreds of immensely readable and surprisingly modern letters on the subject. Hailman looks at Jeffersons five critical years in Paris, where he learned about fine wines at Europes salons and dinner tables. The book uses excerpts from Jeffersons journals, as well as his letters to friends and San Jose Mercury News, whose descendants still produce the wines Jefferson enjoyed. Vivid contemporary accounts of dinners at the White House allow readers to vicariously experience the enjoyment of fine wine. The book concludes with an overview of the current restoration of the vineyards at Monticello and the new Monticello Wine Trail and its numerous world-class Virginia wineries. In Thomas Jefferson On Wine Hailman presents an absorbing and unique view of this towering historical figure. *Publisher Description* This definitive account of a great Americans lifelong passion for fine wine --- Offers all of Jeffersons significant writings on wine --- Introduces an author who is a noted expert in established wine circles-former wine critic for Gannett News Service and the Washington Post --- Combines the rising popularity of wine in American culture with the consistent appeal of Jefferson as a historical figure --- Features numerous quotes from Jeffersons own writings, preserving a rare personal perspective on a familiar icon *Reader Reviews* Thomas Jefferson is so well known that it is difficult to find a book about him that offers new insight into his multi-faceted character. This book does: it presents Jefferson through his very discriminating taste in wine, which was so expert that his favorite French wines later became the great Classified Growths of Bordeaux and the premiere wines of Burgundy. He traveled through France, Germany, and Italy with the express purpose of selecting wines for Monticello, the house he had built in Virginia, capitalizing on an opportunity that came when he was appointed Ambassador Plenipotentiary to the French court. When he was elected President he built the wine cellar for the White House and stocked it with his favorite imported wines. All this is to his credit, and provides further evidence of Jefferson's extensive learning, which went beyond books. But he never succeeded in his pet project, of planting a vineyard and cultivating at home the fine wines he enjoyed abroad. That was for later Virginians to do, and the author provides a tour map of the wineries that now surround Monticello, fulfilling the dream Jefferson himself failed to realize. Comment \| \| (Report this) Back To Top
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