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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.
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]
Member of the East Central Illinois Wine Trail. [8] Castle Finn Vineyard and Winery Marshall, Illinois: 2010 Member of the State Line Wine Trail. [9] City Winery: Chicago, Illinois (two locations) 2012 Opened original site in New York City in 2008. [10] Collver Family Winery Barry, Illinois: 2002 Closed in 2015 [11] Cooper's Hawk Winery ...
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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]
Alton (/ ˈ ɔː l t ən / AWL-tən) is a city on the Mississippi River in Madison County, Illinois, United States, about 18 miles (29 km) north of St. Louis, Missouri. The population was 25,676 at the 2020 census. It is a part of the River Bend area in the Metro-East region of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area.
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.
Southern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois comprising the southern third of the state, principally south of Interstate 70.Part of downstate Illinois, it is bordered by the two most voluminous rivers in the United States: the Mississippi below its connection with the Missouri River to the west and the Ohio River to the east and south, with the tributary Wabash River, extending ...