1John Adlum to Thomas Jefferson, 5 June 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I went last week to see the Baltimore cattle show, with a view to get the members of the Agricultural Society of Maryland to recommend the cultivation of the vine, and the making of wine— I had previously sent four kinds of wine to the President of the society , and which was drank at the Societies dinner, and generally spoke favourably of— Particularly the kind made from a grape called the...
2Thomas Jefferson to John Adlum, 13 June 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 5 th has been duly received, covering my two letters to you of Oct. 7. 1809. and Apr. 10. 1820. 20. 1810. which I now return of these be pleased to make whatever use you think proper. but I should think the first half of the last letter had better be omitted, as it would encumber mr Skinner ’s columns with matter entirely useless & uninteresting to his readers. I am very glad...
3To Thomas Jefferson from John Adlum, 14 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I send for your acceptance through the Post office a bottle of wine made last September, from a grape I call Tokay, A German Priest who saw the grapes ripe said they were the true Tokay, such as he had seen growing in Hungary, I have no doubt but that these grapes are like them, but I have a strong suspicion that they are native—I found them at Clarksburg in Montgomery County at a M rs...
4To Thomas Jefferson from John Adlum, 24 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I sent you some days since a bottle of domestic wine that I call Tokay—I now send you a bottle of what I call Burgundy. neither of these wines have had any brandy in them,—I will after I have bottled it send you a bottle of my Champaign, made of the miller Burgundy grape, which will have to be kept perhaps two months before you drink it, when, I expect it will be brisk and sparkle—I have but...
5From Thomas Jefferson to John Adlum, 11 April 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved successively the two bottles of wine you were so kind as to send me. the first, called Tokay, is truly a fine wine, of high flavor, and, as you assure me there was not a drop of brandy or other spirit in it, I may say it is a wine of a good body of it’s own. the 2 d bottle, a red wine, I tried when I had good judges at the table. we agreed it was a wine one might always drink with...