1[Personal Expenditures, February–July 1780.] (Adams Papers)
Paid for the Cariage of an hoghead and Case of Bordeaux Wine, and the Duties on the Road
2From John Adams to John Bondfield, 2 April 1780 (Adams Papers)
I have Occasion for a Cask of Bordeaux Wine, of the very best Quality, such as You sent Us, when I was at Passy....favor I have to ask of You, and that is a list of the various Sorts of Bordeaux Wines, their Names, Qualities and Prices, and what is the difference between the Price of new Wine and old of each Sort, per Ton, what Quantity there is in a Ton—per Hogshead or Pipe and what...
3To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Williams, Jr., 29 July 1780 (Franklin Papers)
had so praised the Bordeaux wine supplied him by V. & P. French & nephew that he made his friends’ “mouths water for a taste of it.” On July 22, the day after he returned to Nantes, he requested the firm to...
4To John Adams from the Comte de Sarsfield, 5 June 1783 (Adams Papers)
sought information about Bordeaux wine and mentioned specifically the wines of St. Émilion, particularly Château Canon and Pomerol. Martoret was well located because Libourne is approximately midway between St. Émilion and Pomerol. For additional information on the wines of Bordeaux and
5Instructions to the American Commissioners, May–June 1784 (Adams Papers)
In 1779 Forster Frères, a Bordeaux mercantile firm, obtained a passport from the French government to send a cargo of Bordeaux wine and brandy to Ireland in the Irish ship
6Memorandum Books, 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
had ordered Bordeaux wine “of fine quality” in Jan. 1786. He received 144 bottles of claret, evidently Château Haut-Brion, which he found “excellent,” and 144 bottles of white Graves, “a little hard” (
7To Thomas Jefferson from John Bondfield, 6 December 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
...Six hundred Livres for one of them which he refused. I am to have two Cases of the first hhd he draws off. It is urging and too much to pay three Livres in Bordeaux for a Bottle of Bordeaux Wine, but so great has been the demand for that Vintage that the holders obtain that exorbitant price.
8Memorandum Books, 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
...on bank in favor Henry Remsen for 186⅔ D. to pay Franks for a bill of excha. on Lond. for 40£ sterl. to be remittd. to Mr. Short & by him to Fenwick to pay for Bordeaux wine.
9From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald, 13 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Bordeaux wines.
10To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 17 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
. TJ—who from 1790 to 1795 had used Fenwick as his source for Bordeaux wine—replied that the charges of misconduct reflected “malversation in Fenwick if true.” Fenwick was dismissed from his position as consul, the Senate approving his replacement in December 1797 (