
I recently picked up the book, The Billionaire’s Vinegar, by Benjamin Wallace. This book is a romp through the intense world of high-society, elite wine circles and its dark underbelly: wine fakery. Although I already knew the book’s punch line, it exposed me to something that I wasn’t familiar with; namely, the role Thomas Jefferson played as a founder of the American wine industry. I decided I wanted to know more about this multi-talented Founding Father. [Read more…]