1To James Madison from John Adlum, 28 March 1823 (Madison Papers)
I have taken the liberty of sending you a bottle of domestic wine which I call Tokay. It is made of a grape that I found some years since at Clarksburgh Montgomery County Maryland, at a Mrs. Scholls. It is one of the greatest bearers of any grape that I know of, and tolerable for the table. They are also very handsome, the bunches are of a good size and a beautiful black colour, covered with a...
2John 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...
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...