On the eve of the French Revolution, the future President of the United States of America visited the great wine regions of our country. “Le Figaro” has resumed its route.
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Special envoy to Tain
Ninety kilometers separate Lyon from Tain-l'Hermitage.
Via the A7 motorway, the trip takes one hour;
by the National 7, with the Rhône on its left, it is a little shorter, but slower.
In mid-March 1787, aboard his two-horse-drawn sedan, it took Thomas Jefferson two days to drive from town to town, marveling at a fertile country, carefully cultivated and worked, noting in his notebooks that there were more cows than wine around Lyon and more wine than cows around Tain.
On the right bank of the Rhône, he first admired the terraced vineyards on the slopes of Côte Rôtie, where powerful red wines are produced with Syrah, then that of Condrieu, dedicated to whites made from Viognier.
As a connoisseur, the United States Ambassador…
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