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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.
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.
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Illinois wine refers to any wine that is produced in the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2006, Shawnee Hills, in southern Illinois, was named the state's first American Viticultural Area . As of 2008, there were 79 wineries in Illinois, utilizing approximately 1,100 acres (4.5 km 2 ) of vines. [ 2 ]
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]
The Upper Mississippi River Valley AVA is an American Viticultural Area covering 29,914 square miles (77,477 km 2; 19,144,960 acres) located along the Upper Mississippi River and its tributaries in northwest Illinois, northeast Iowa, southeast Minnesota and southwest Wisconsin.
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The Hunziker Winery Site is the site of a former winery in Cedar Glen State Natural Area near Warsaw, Illinois.The winery was established in the 1860s by vintner and Swiss immigrant Gottlieb Hunziker and his business partner William Hoffman.