On the eve of the French Revolution, the future President of the United States of America visited the great wine regions of our country.
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Special envoy to Nice
In Gironde, wine merchants readily repeat that Thomas Jefferson proposed as early as 1787 a hierarchy of Bordeaux wines which announced the grand classification of 1855, distinguishing four premier crus — Lafite, Latour, Margaux and Haut-Brion.
In his notes, the traveling ambassador sketched an even more astonishing nomenclature of French wines.
This one reserves a place of choice for a wine revealed to amateurs only: the Nice vintage called Bellet.
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It's the most elegant of all the wines in the world and it costs thirty-one cents a bottle.
The production being limited, it is very little known in general.
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