Upper Mississippi River Valley AVA

Upper Mississippi River Valley is an American Viticultural Area (AVA) encompassing 29,914 square miles (77,480 km2; 19,145,000 acres) along the Upper Mississippi River and its tributaries located in northwest Illinois, northeast Iowa, southeast Minnesota and southwest Wisconsin. It was established as the nation's 194th, Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin's second and Iowa's initial wine appellation on July 22, 2009, as, currently, the nation's largest viticultural area, by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), Treasury after reviewing the petition submitted by the Upper Mississippi River Valley AVA Committee on behalf of local vintners proposing a viticultural area named "Upper Mississippi River Valley." The area is 50 times larger than the Bordeaux wine regions of France.

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