The gardens of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello are among the most famous in the world. Of the species grown on his sprawling estate, one of the most intriguing is
Jefferson’s favorite apple variety – the Taliaferro Cider Apple. He considered it “the best cyder apple existing,” producing “unquestionably the finest cyder we have ever known, and more like wine than any other liquor I have ever tasted which was not wine.”
