We are sure that all of our readers have heard about legendary Boston Tea Party, but do you know anything about Madeira Party, which was held some years before it? No, then this article will be interesting for you. Today we will tell you about American presidents and their favorite wine kinds, let us detect wine lovers among noble American politicians.

Some facts about Madeira Party…

This party was held a few years before famous Boston Tea Party, the main idea of this party was the same as at Tea Party – to show negative attitude to the British domination in America. We have to tell you that madeira wine was a favorite wine of American colonists and the origin of this negative attitude is connected with it. The deal was in the fact that British people tried to ration Madeira for colonists and by that reason they seized the shipment with a cargo of Madeira that was consigned to John Hancock. Hancock started the conflict and received his wine back, lately he was first who had signed the Declaration of Independence.

Lincoln and his attitude to wine…

Another interesting case with wine happened at the time when Abraham Lincoln was in office. Lincoln was informed that his chief general Ulysses S. Grant drank too much last time. Lincoln’s answer for this was in typical Lincoln’s manner, he said: “Find out what brand he drinks and I will send a barrel to each of my generals.” This brand was called “Old Crow” and you can find it in the stores even now.

Interesting fact that Lincoln’s father was a worker of a company producing Bourbon, but Lincoln despite all this was an alcohol abstainer.

Herbert Hoover at the time of prohibition…

Unfortunately we can’t say the same about Herbert Hoover, another USA president, who during the time of prohibition, often visited Belgian Embassy, because it was considered as a territory of a different country and it didn’t take American laws. Maybe he was also a guest of other embassies, who knows…

George Washington and his wine company…

At the time when George Washington leaved the post there was no retirement plan for the presidents at all, that’s why he had to earn for a living somehow. He began to work as distilling of whisky wine. He was a real leader by nature not for nothing he was known as the “Father of the USA” so soon he became an owner of a largest wine company in the United States.

Thomas Jefferson as a real wine lover…

The reputation of a real wine lover deserved Thomas Jefferson. He never hid the fact he liked wine that is why everybody knew about his collection of french wine kinds. He tried to grow in America famous grapes kinds of Europe. He bought wine from Europe in bottles not in barrels. The honor to his fancied wine kind belongs to the wine from Bordeaux area called Medoc wine. Practically no wine from Jefferson’s collection remains at present days in drinkable variant, except for “Mouton Cadet” wine you can find at the market.

As for Jefferson’s idea of wine growing in the USA we have to tell you that at that time it had failed. The deal was in the fact, that Jefferson knew nothing about insects and diseases that in some regions impede the growth of grapes. But he believed that in future the American continent will be able to produce wine that will be as good as French variants.

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