Jefferson Thomas

The American politician Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was born in Shadwell in the US state of Virginia, the son of a tobacco planter. As one of the champions of a free America, he formulated the first draft of the US Declaration of Independence. From 1785 to 1789, he was a US envoy in Paris and travelled for several months in France and Italy to study viticulture. Among other things, he visited vineyards in Bordeaux, Burgundy, the Rhône and Piedmont. In a letter, he wrote: "We could, in the United States, make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good. "

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