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The Shawnee Hills AVA is an American Viticultural Area located between the Mississippi River and the Ohio River in southern Illinois.The wine appellation includes over 2,140 square miles (5,500 km 2) of land in portions of Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Pope, Pulaski, Randolph, Saline, Union, and Williamson counties.
Member of the Northern Illinois Wine Trail [1] and located within the Upper Mississippi River Valley AVA. [15] Fox Creek Vineyards and Winery Olney, Illinois: 1999 Member of the Wabash Valley Wine Trail. [6] Fox Valley Winery Oswego, Illinois: 2001 Member of the Northern Illinois Wine Trail. [1] Furrow Vineyard El Paso, Illinois: 2001 Closed in ...
Illinois wine refers to any wine that is produced in the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2006, Shawnee Hills, in southern Illinois, was named the state's first American Viticultural Area . As of 2008, there were 79 wineries in Illinois, utilizing approximately 1,100 acres (4.5 km 2 ) of vines. [ 2 ]
In 2007, Hidden Lake Winery participated in the ART in the Park Festival in Belleville, IL. [3] In 2007, many wineries in Southern Illinois formed a "wine trail," (a group of wineries working together and advertising for each other in order to promote business for the area) called the Heartland Rivers Wine Trail.
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The Shawnee Hills are a region within the larger Interior Low Plateaus physiographic province located in southern Illinois, southern Indiana, and western Kentucky. [1] In Illinois it rests mainly in an east–west arc roughly following the outline of the southern end of the Illinois Basin .
Blue Sky Vineyard is located in the heart of the Shawnee National Forest and anchors the eastern end of the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail. [1] Located within the Shawnee Hills American Viticultural Area , an area that is federally designated and recognized for its uniqueness in grape growing, Blue Sky Vineyard uses Illinois grapes to produce a ...