{"id":31998,"date":"2022-08-26T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visithermann.com\/?p=31998"},"modified":"2023-07-25T12:22:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T17:22:01","slug":"history-in-a-bottle-about-hermanns-ava-designation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visithermann.com\/history-in-a-bottle-about-hermanns-ava-designation\/","title":{"rendered":"History in a Bottle: About Hermann’s AVA Designation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Every single bottle of wine tells a unique story. In Hermann, the story begins nearly two centuries ago, when German immigrants began settling along the Missouri River. Largely through trial and error, they learned to cultivate grapes on craggy hillsides and in rugged wilderness, and in hot, humid conditions. By the end of the 19th century, Hermann was among the largest wine-producing regions in the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Did you know that Hermann is an American Viticultural Area (AVA)? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regulated by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), an AVA is defined as \u201ca delimited grape-growing region with specific geographic or climatic features that distinguish it from the surrounding regions and affect how grapes are grown.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Becoming an AVA is typically a years-long process, and to use the AVA designation on bottle labels, the federal government says at least 85% of the grapes used to make your wine must come from within the AVA boundary. Further, the wine must be fully finished in the state in which the viticultural area is located, the TTB notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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