Passions: The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson Tapa blanda - 2016

Jim Gabler grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. He has degrees from Washington & Lee University in economics and law. He served in the U.S.Army as a finance officer. He practiced law in Maryland as a civil trial lawyer for the defense and plaintiff. Jim's passion is wine and includes travels to vineyard regions throughout the world, collecting wine and wine books, and writing about wine. Jim's most recent book is Dine with Thomas Jefferson and Fascinating Guests. Other books are Passions: The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson, An Evening with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson: Dinner, Wine, and Conversation, Wine into Words, How To Be A Wine Expert, two novels, The Secret Formula, and God's Devil, and a stage play, Franklin & Jefferson: Sex, Politics, and the American Revolution. Since the publication of Passions, he has been a guest speaker on Jefferson and wine at institutions, organizations and clubs throughout the United States including Monticello, Smithsonian Institution: Museum of American History, Boston Athenaeum, Winterthur, and The Society of the Four Arts. Jim lives with his wife Anita in Palm Beach, Florida.