Boy done youse guys realize it's " Honest Abez " Birfday???

[winoweenie]

Not one mention enny place here. SHEESH!!!!!ww [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb/wink.gif[/img]

[wondersofwine]

I'm related to his wife although with her reputation (spendthrift, difficult personality) I'm not sure that's to my credit. You have to sympathize with her though--loss of all but one son to disease, and assassination of her husband, shot while she was sitting next to him at the theater. And more recent historians have acknowledged her political acuity in Lincoln's early career. Anyway, she was a first cousin to one of my great-great grandmothers on my mother's side.

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[Innkeeper]

WOW, we're glad you didn't inherit the difficult personality!

[wondersofwine]

A few would say that I did.

[andrawes76]

Did Honest Abe drink wine?

[Drew]

Not a drop...

Drew

The following snippits taken from the below link from the Univ. of Illinois Library "Licoln vs. Liquor"
http://www.archive.org/stream/lincolnvsliquor00bake/lincolnvsliquor00bake_djvu.txt

Lincoln's mother warned him against the vice
of intemperance. She showed him that the use of liquor degraded the mind and that it was destructive of the soul. There is absolutely" no evidence to show that in his entire life he ever took a drink
of liquor. There is plenty of evidence to the effect that he was as abstemious as an anchorite; that he never took a drink of liquor, and that he persuaded
others to leave it alone. Lincoln viewed liquor and slavery as twin evils.

" And when the victory shall be complete:
when there shall be neither a slave or a drunkard on the earth, how proud the title of that land which may truly claim to be the birthplace and the cradle of both these revolutions that shall have ended in that victory. How nobly distinguished that people, -who shall have planted, and nurtured to maturity, both the political and moral freedom of their species."

[newsguy]

abe's my favorite president, but i spent nearly 8 hours wednesday dealing with reporters on our lincoln cover package for thursday's paper. i've paid my respects... and then some. [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb/wink.gif[/img]

[andrawes76]

So, I appreciate Abe Lincoln... but which president (other than Thomas Jefferson) had an affinity and deep love for wine and what varietal? I heard that Ronald Reagan like La Crema Chardonnay and made it "La selection du jour" at the Maison Blanche...

[newsguy]

Richard Nixon was practically addicted to Ch. Margaux. A bottle of it was always waiting at his table in his regular restaurant haunts. Also, he typically had it poured for him at state dinners, the bottle wrapped in a napkin, while guests drank lesser wines.

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[hotwine]

Our first president, Gen. Washington, appears to have developed a fondness for Bordeaux, based on the book "Thomas Jefferson on Wine" by John Hailman.

Nixon's wine preferences were toward classic European products. He much preferred Margaux, yet being from La-La-Land felt he had to show favoritism toward left coast vino, thus the public display of CA versus the private preference for the Frenchie. Can sympathize with that.

[winoweenie]

WOW!!! He was as open and honest in his private preferences as he was about his official duties.WW [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb/wink.gif[/img]