True Story: In 1820-something, John Adlum, one of America’s first wine geeks and sometime correspondent of our TJ’s, writes to his friend Nicholas Longworth, “In bringing this grape [by which he meant the Catawba] into public notice, I have rendered my country a greater service, than I would have done, had I paid the national [...]
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Whacked another mole
Posted in Reference Questions, TJ Encyclopedia Entries, tagged John Adlum, spurious quotations, wine on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
TJ and wine on NPR
Posted in Jefferson in the News, tagged Monticello staff, NPR, wine on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s a topic that has proved endlessly fascinating for a long time (and has inspired quite a body of writing): Thomas Jefferson and his love of wine. It’s probably because a lot of us can sympathize. We were excited to learn that a locally-produced story about Jefferson, wine, and the efforts to restore the wine [...]
