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There’s wine from the Midwest, doncha know?

Michael Wangbickler on October 15th, 2009

Quick! Name the first American Viticultural Area (AVA) established in the United States. Napa? Nope. It was Augusta, as in Augusta, MISSOURI. WTF? Yep. Recognized on June 20, 1980 by the then Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), now the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), the Augusta AVA has the distinction [...]

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