Better know an AVA – Texoma
Name: Texoma
Date of birth: January 6, 2006 (link to pdf of birth announcement)
Size: 3,650 square miles (2.3 million acres)
Includes: Currently 55 acres under vine (out of the 2.3 million) and four vintners. The area includes Montague, Cooke, Grayson, and Fannin Counties.
Parent’s comment (TTB): “We designate viticultural areas to allow vintners to better describe the origin of their wines and to allow consumers to better identify wines they may purchase.”
Somewhere along on the Texas-Oklahoma border one of America’s newest AVAs, or American Viticultural Areas, was recently born. It was found along the banks of the Red River and the 89,000 acre Lake Texoma, built in the 1940s by the Army Corps of Engineers and now known as a recreation area with power boating and bass fishing (more).
Despite it’s hefty size, the AVA weighs in only at eleventh in AVAs (list). Like all infants, it trades more on future promise than past results. It currently has four wineries in the 2.3 million acres: Texoma Winery, Grayson Hills, and Homestead Winery’s two locations.
Let’s give ’em a big welcome!
(Homage a Colbert)
tags: wine | ava | Texoma | Colbert report
