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The Texas Hill Country AVA is an American Viticultural Area located in the Texas Hill Country north of San Antonio and west of Austin, Texas. [3] The appellation is the third largest American Viticultural Area in geographic area behind the Upper Mississippi River Valley AVA and Ohio River Valley AVA, covering an area of over 9,000,000 acres (14,062 sq mi).
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]
It was the first designated wine area located entirely in the state of Texas, and covers an area of over 3,200 acres (5 sq mi). The appellation is entirely contained within the Texas Hill Country AVA, which was established nine years after Bell Mountain AVA. [2] As of 2006, there were nine wineries in the appellation. [5]
Texas is one of the oldest wine growing states in the US with vines planted here more than a hundred years before they were planted in California or Virginia. [5] In the 1650s, Franciscan priest Father Garcia de San Francisco y Zǘñiga, the founder of El Paso, planted Mission vines in West Texas for the production of sacramental wine. [6]
Area 1: Panhandle/High Plains Wildlife District [1] [2] includes five WMAs; Area 2: Prairies and Lakes [3] Area 3: Pineywoods [4] Area 4: Gulf Coast [5] Area 5: South Texas Plains [6] Area 6: Hill Country [7] Area 7: Big Bend Country [8] There is some confusion as there are also listed eight Wildlife Management Areas [9] that roughly coincide ...
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The appellation is the second largest American Viticultural Area in Texas, and covers an area of over 270,000 acres (422 sq mi). Most of the vineyards are on flat terrain at elevations between 3,000 feet (914 m) and 4,000 feet (1,219 m) above sea level .
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