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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] Alto Vineyards Alto Pass, Illinois: 1988 Member of the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail [2] and located within the Shawnee Hills AVA. [3] August Hill Winery Peru, Illinois: 2002 Member of the Illinois River Wine Trail. [4] Baxter's Vineyards and Winery Nauvoo, Illinois: 1989 Originally opened in 1857.
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]
As in many other states, Prohibition in the United States destroyed the Ohio wine industry, which has struggled to recover. As of 2018 Ohio was the 6th-largest wine producer in the United States. [1] [2] In Fall of 2011 Kent State University at Ashtabula became the first university in the state to offer programs in viticulture and enology. [4]
A huge range of cool-climate grape varieties and wine styles are produced in the Grand River Valley, and it now boasts over 30 wineries within the AVA and surrounding region. Over 50% of Ohio's grapes are grown in the Grand River Valley, and the region has over 1,300 acres (526 ha) of vineyards.
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The Ohio River Valley AVA is an American Viticultural Area centered on the Ohio River and surrounding areas.It is the second largest wine appellation of origin in the United States (only the Upper Mississippi Valley is larger) with 16,640,000 acres (26,000 sq mi) (67,300 km 2) in portions of the states of Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia.
After Prohibition in 1936, the Baxter family winery became Illinois' first bonded winery. In a sharply different region of Illinois, the Shawnee Hills, Guy Renzaglia founded Alto Vineyards in 1982. [3] He planted new varieties such as Chancellor, Chambourcin, Vidal blanc, and Villard blanc. Renzaglia and two other growers founded the Shawnee ...