There's something about the beginning history of wine in America that has always intrigued me, to the point of making a trip to the nation's capitol a few years back as a delegate of the California Association of Wine Grape Growers. While thrilled to be part of the group, there was a deep down curiosity to go to Monticello and understand more about Thomas Jefferson - who used the words: "No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage." With trepidation, I walked the sacred grounds …