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The Augusta AVA was established on June 20, 1980 as the first federally approved American Viticultural Area, eight months before the Napa Valley AVA in Northern California. The petition was submitted by Clayton W. Byers and Lucian W. Dressel , representing the local wine industry, to the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ...
A vineyard in the Leelanau Peninsula AVA, in Michigan.Michigan is home to five AVAs, all adjacent to Lake Michigan.. AVAs vary widely in size, [4] ranging from the Upper Mississippi River Valley AVA, at more than 19 million acres (29,900 square miles (77,000 km 2)) across four states (Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin), [5] to the Cole Ranch AVA in Mendocino County, California, at only ...
St. Vincent is a red wine grape that originated in the United States from a chance seedling that first came to the attention of Scott G. Toedebusch, in 1973, while managing a vineyard owned by Lucian W. Dressel in Augusta, Missouri. [1]
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The American Vineyard Foundation (AVF) is an American non-profit public charity which aims to improve the American wine industry through research. It was founded by Zelma Long to help finance research in enology and viticulture; Long also founded the American Viticulture and Enology Research Network (AVERN). [ 1 ]
German immigrants to the Missouri River valley established vineyards and wineries on both sides of the river. Hermann, Missouri, settled by Germans in 1837, had ideal conditions to grow grapes for wine. By 1848 winemakers there produced 10,000 US gallons (37,900 L) per year, expanding to 100,000 US gallons (378,500 L) per year by 1856. [5]
A cane-trained vineyard using vertical trellising similar to the VSP system Vine training systems can be broadly classified by a number of different measurements. One of the oldest means was based on the relative height of the trunk with the distance of the canopy from the ground being described as high-trained (also known as "high culture" or ...
Workforce Hub: First Lady Jill Biden tours Augusta Tech, talks workforce development. This article originally appeared on Augusta Chronicle: Free rides for jobseekers in Augusta through Lyft, says ...