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An American Viticultural Area (AVA) is a designated appellation for American wine in the United States distinguishable by geographic, geologic, and climatic features, with boundaries defined by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) of the United States Department of the Treasury. [1]
Iowa; Wine region: Official name: State of Iowa: Type: U.S. State Appellation [1] Years of wine industry: 179: Country: United States: Sub-regions: Upper Mississippi Valley AVA, Loess Hills District AVA [2] Climate region: Continental: Soil conditions: clay and gravel base [1] Total area: 56,272 square miles (145,744 km 2) Size of planted ...
Loess Hills District is an American Viticultural Area (AVA) located in western Iowa and northwestern Missouri established on March 3, 2016 by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), Treasury after reviewing the petition submitted by Shirley Frederiksen, on behalf of the Western Iowa Grape Growers Association and the Golden Hills Resource Conservation and Development organization ...
1911 map showing extent of the Driftless Area as well as the Driftless region in Minnesota and Iowa Typical terrain of the Driftless Area as viewed from Wildcat Mountain State Park in Vernon County, Wisconsin Glacial map of the Great Lakes region; the dark area near left center was not covered by drift. Areas with diagonal hatching were ...
Iowa wine; L. Loess Hills District AVA; U. Upper Mississippi River Valley AVA This page was last edited on 23 December 2023, at 23:34 (UTC). Text is available under ...
Map of the United States with Iowa highlighted Iowa Cities and Counties. Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States. As of 2010, there are 943 incorporated cities in the U.S. state of Iowa. According to the 2020 United States Census, Iowa has 3,190,369 inhabitants and 55,857.13 square miles (144,669.3 km 2) of land. [1]
An American Viticultural Area (AVA) is a designated wine grape-growing region in the United States, providing an official appellation for the mutual benefit of wineries and consumers. Winemakers frequently want their consumers to know about the geographic pedigree of their wines, as wines from a particular area can possess distinctive ...
The first wine from First Vineyard was consumed by subscribers to the vineyard at John Postelthwaite's house on March 21, 1803. [12] Two 5-gallon oak casks of wine were taken to President Thomas Jefferson in Washington, D. C., in February 1805. [13] The vineyard continued until 1809, when a killing freeze in May destroyed the crop and many vines.