In 1796, a family in New Jersey stocked up on wine, in anticipation of celebrating America’s second president, John Adams, who would take office in March 1796. More than 220 years later, three cases were still in the wine cellar of what had become the Liberty Hall Museum—those bottles of wine now make up the largest known collections of 18th century Madeira wine, NJ.com reports.
In the colonial era and the early history of the U.S., Madeira wine, made…
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