(Mazzei’s descendants still make wine in Tuscany ... Virginia’s wine community has long tied its story to Thomas Jefferson, the nation’s “first oenophile,” who famously believed ...

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation said on Thursday it ... for the Purpose of raising and making Wine.” The Virginia Wine Company had 38 shareholders, including Jefferson and George Washington.

Thomas Jefferson ... He was an early wine connoisseur. Centuries before wine appreciation became a national pastime, Jefferson was busy accumulating an eclectic wine cellar.

James M. “Jim” Gabler, a Baltimore lawyer and author who wrote widely on Thomas Jefferson’s lust for wine, died June 29 from complications of a stroke at his Jupiter, Florida, home.

While Thomas Jefferson never succeeded in growing ... the first to make Jefferson's dream a reality, successfully making European wine in Virginia when he came from southern Italy in the 1970s.