{"id":120,"date":"2022-10-11T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vinissime.fr\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2023-06-06T00:07:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T22:07:59","slug":"thomas-jefferson-la-passion-du-vin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vinissime.fr\/blog\/thomas-jefferson-la-passion-du-vin\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Jefferson &#8211; La passion du vin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Un homme politique au coeur de son temps<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thomas Jefferson est un personnage passionnant. Il a couvert, au cours de sa longue vie (83 ans), une \u00e9poque charni\u00e8re d\u2019\u00e9mancipation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Son pays va quitter le statut de colonie anglaise, traverser la guerre d\u2019ind\u00e9pendance,  se transformer en Etats f\u00e9d\u00e9r\u00e9s puis en Etats-Unis d\u2019Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pendant ce temps en France c\u2019est la chute de l\u2019ancien r\u00e9gime, la r\u00e9volution, l\u2019av\u00e8nement de la R\u00e9publique puis de l\u2019Empire et enfin la Restauration avant la Monarchie de Juillet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pourquoi parler de ce personnage politique dans un blog de vin ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thomas Jefferson \u00e9tait un passionn\u00e9 d\u2019agronomie, de bonne ch\u00e8re et de bon vin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Homme d\u2019action, il \u00a0\u00ab fait l\u2019histoire\u00a0\u00bb (co-r\u00e9dacteur de la Charte d\u2019Ind\u00e9pendance il est un des p\u00e8res fondateurs des Etats-Unis).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">C&rsquo;est un visionnaire, il est lib\u00e9ral \u2013 on dit physiocrate \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque. Pour lui, la seule source de cr\u00e9ation de richesse est l\u2019agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Terre \u00e0 terre, occupant de hautes fonctions politiques, voire la fonction supr\u00eame. Mais il reste toujours en prise avec la gestion de ses biens fonciers de Monticello en Virginie. Et il s\u2019int\u00e9resse particuli\u00e8rement \u00e0 la culture de la vigne, car il est un grand amateur de vin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Un connaisseur de la France et de ses vignobles<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">De 1784 \u00e0 1789, il est ministre pl\u00e9nipotentiaire des Etats-Unis en France (aujourd\u2019hui on dit ambassadeur). Il d\u00e9couvre nos campagnes, nos vignobles et nos vins au cours de nombreux voyages dans toute l\u2019Europe mais particuli\u00e8rement en France. Il observe, d\u00e9guste, d\u00e9crit dans ses cahiers, toutes ses exp\u00e9riences qui sont encore aujourd\u2019hui de formidables sources pour les historiens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En 1855, Napol\u00e9on III demande un <a href=\"https:\/\/gcc-1855.fr\/classement-grands-crus-classes-1855\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">classement des vins de Bordeaux<\/a> pour l\u2019 exposition universelle.<br>Les courtiers bordelais manquent de temps. Ils utilisent alors <a href=\"https:\/\/vinissime.fr\/blog\/classement-des-vins-de-bordeaux-de-1855\/\">le classement de ces vins que Thomas Jefferson a r\u00e9alis\u00e9 quelques 70 ans auparavant !<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Des \u00e9crits pr\u00e9cis qui font r\u00e9f\u00e9rence<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pour la Bourgogne, il \u00e9crit lors d\u2019un de ses voyages \u00ab\u00a0<em>Le meilleur vin qu\u2019on sert \u00e0 Dijon est le Vosne. Il se paye 4 livres la bouteille. Les vins qui ont rendu la Bourgogne c\u00e9l\u00e8bre ne viennent que de la C\u00f4te. Ils commencent \u00e0 Chambertin et passent par Vougeot, Roman\u00e9e, Vosne, Nuits, Beaune, Pommard, Volnay, Meursault et Montrachet. Le volnay vaut le chambertin mais comme il se garde moins bien il se vend moins cher (12 sous la bouteille). Les meilleurs des rouges (chambertin) et des blancs (montrachet) se trouvent aux deux bouts de la C\u00f4te <\/em>\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suit cette observation : \u00ab <em>Il est dit que les vignobles voisins produisent un vin de la m\u00eame qualit\u00e9 mais, appartenant \u00e0 des gens obscurs, n\u2019ont pas la m\u00eame r\u00e9putation<\/em> \u00bb. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ailleurs, Jefferson observe qu\u2019\u00e0 Pommard et \u00e0 Volnay les vignerons mangent du pain de froment mais \u00e0 Meursault, du pain de seigle. La raison est que la production du vin blanc est moins s\u00fbre que celle du rouge. Le lien entre viticulture et \u00e9conomie r\u00e9appara\u00eet r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement dans ses \u00e9crits.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Extrait de l\u2019\u00e9tude de B\u00e9atrice FINK :<\/em> <em>Thomas Jefferson, chef d\u2019\u00e9tat, vigneron, \u0153nophile.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vous l\u2019avez compris Thomas Jefferson est un passionnant personnage du monde du vin. Il va nous mener dans tous les vignobles europ\u00e9ens y compris les plus inattendus !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Un homme politique au coeur de son temps Thomas Jefferson est un personnage passionnant. Il a couvert, au cours de sa longue vie (83 ans), une \u00e9poque charni\u00e8re d\u2019\u00e9mancipation. Son pays va quitter le statut de colonie anglaise, traverser la guerre d\u2019ind\u00e9pendance, se transformer en Etats f\u00e9d\u00e9r\u00e9s puis en Etats-Unis d\u2019Am\u00e9rique. 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