-Thomas Jefferson bought over 20,000 bottles of European wine during his presidency, and he helped stock the wine cellars of the first five U.S. presidents. He was very partial to fine Bordeaux and Madeira. In fact, four Bordeaux First Growths he once owned are now involved in a law suit.-Barack Obama, according to friends, is a founding member of the wine and cheese club.
-Richard Nixon was a Francophile when it came to wine, but he kept the labels covered with napkins to hide the fact that they weren’t produced in America.
