Shawnee Hills AVA

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name = Shawnee Hills AVA


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type = American Viticultural Area
year = 2006 [http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr;sid=bff700d0bbb2a632948b70fe7e91d7d4;rgn=div5;view=text;node=27%3A1.0.1.1.7;idno=27;cc=ecfr#27:1.0.1.1.7.3.41.186 Code of Federal Regulations. "§ 9.206 Shawnee Hills."] Title 27: Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; Part 9 — American Viticultural Areas; Subpart C — Approved American Viticultural Areas. Retrieved Feb. 5, 2008.]
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country = USA
part of = Illinois
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total size = convert|1370000|acre|km2|-2Owl Creek Vineyard (2006). [http://www.owlcreekvineyard.com/release001.php "Shawnee Hills AVA Gets Federal Nod"] . Retrieved Feb. 5, 2008.]
planted = convert|300|acre|km2|0
vineyards = 55
grapes = Cabernet Franc, Chambourcin, Chancellor, Chardonel, Frontenac,Riesling, TraminetteAppellation America (2007). [http://wine.appellationamerica.com/wine/data/Shawnee-Hills.html "Shawnee Hills (AVA): Appellation Description"] . Retrieved Feb. 5, 2008.]
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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 convert|2140|sqmi|km2 of land in portions of Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Pope, Pulaski, Randolph, Saline, Union, and Williamson counties. The region stretches approximately convert|80|mi|km|-1 east-west and convert|20|mi|km|-1 north-south, and includes the vast majority of the Shawnee National Forest.

The AVA was created as a result of the successful petition of Ted Wichmann, owner of Owl Creek Vineyard. The area is named after the Shawnee, a Native American nation that settled in southern Illinois in the early 19th century. The AVA is served by the "Shawnee Hills Wine Trail". "Shawnee Hills Wine Trail/History." [http://www.shawneewinetrail.com/history.htm] ]

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