“The Tokay is much more superior to what you sent me last year under that name” – Thomas Jefferson and His Hungarian Wines
“The Tokay is much more superior to what you sent me last year under that name” – Thomas Jefferson and His Hungarian Wines

Summary/Abstract: Thomas Jefferson was an ardent patron of American viticulture. As an admirer of any kind of good quality wine, he purchased an enormous quantity from the wine producing countries of Europe: France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Germany. It is not so widely known that he also had Hungarian wines in the cellar of his beloved Monticello. In this essay I will investigate the problems of how, when and why the third president of the United States felt the need to purchase wines from such a distant and, from the American perspective, relatively unknown land.

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