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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After briefly stopping in Nîmes, Thomas Jefferson was in Lunel in the middle of May 1787. It is hard to imagine the favor enjoyed by the natural sweet wines of Lunel, Frontignan and Rivesaltes in European courts in the 18th century.
Received in Frontignan by Marc-François Lambert, a professor of medicine from the faculty of Montpellier who would become the mayor of the city after the Revolution, the Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States was then introduced to the secret of their development.
Until the end of his life, he remained faithful to their amber color, their intense nose of dried fruits, their ample and even floral mouth when the winemaker does not have too heavy a hand on the sulphur.
“Although far from you, Sir, I am still within reach of receiving your excellent…
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