Puget Sound AVA

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Puget Sound AVA
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Appellation type: American Viticultural Area
Year of establishment: 1995
Country: United States
Growing period: 180 days
Cultivation climate: Temperate zone
Precipitation (annual mean): 400 mm to 1200 mm per year, mainly in the winter months
Soil types: Semi-permeable subsoil
Planted acreage: 32 hectares
Grape varieties: Mainly Madeleine Angevine , Siegerrebe , Müller-Thurgau , Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir
Wine quantity: Single-variety wines, sparkling wine , dessert wine

Puget Sound AVA (recognized since 1995) is a wine-growing region in the US state of Washington . Puget Sound is Washington's only state-approved wine-growing zone west of the Cascade Range .

Geography and climate

The American Viticultural Area (AVA for short) covers the entire area of ​​the Puget Sound Strait from the Canadian border in the north to the city of Olympia in the south.

Due to the areas to the west of the cascade chain, the precipitation of 400 - 1200 mm / year is significantly higher than in the other AVAs in Washington, the majority of which are combined in the supra-regional Columbia Valley AVA . The northern location usually requires early maturing varieties such as Madeleine Angevine , Madeline Sylvaner, Müller-Thurgau and Siegerrebe but also specifically selected clones of the varieties Pinot Noir (called Pinot Noir) and Pinot Gris (called Pinot Gris). With a fairly mild winter climate, but a few severe frosts per winter, the climate is similar to that of the Muscadet region near Nantes in France .

history

The first documented plantings were established by veteran of the Civil War, Lambert Evans, near the strait in 1872. On Stretch Island near what is now Allyn-Grapeview , Evans planted various selections of the wild grape Vitis labrusca .

Wineries

Some of Washington State's best-known wineries such as Chateau Ste. Michelle , Columbia Winery , Novelty Hill Januik and Silver Lake are in Puget Sound AVA. Most of the wineries are located in nearby Seattle and Woodinville Wine Country . Despite the small vineyard area of ​​the wine-growing region, the farms are of considerable size. Chateau Ste. Michelle, for example, is considered to be the world's largest Riesling producer. The farms usually buy grapes from the nearby Columbia Valley AVA. Currently only one company, the Bainbridge Island Winery and Vineyards, processes only grape material from the Puget Sound Designation of Origin.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ T. Parker Discovering Washington Wines pg 30 Raconteurs Press 2002 ISBN 0971925852
  2. ^ A b T. Parker Discovering Washington Wines pg 49 Raconteurs Press 2002 ISBN 0971925852
  3. ^ T. Parker Discovering Washington Wines pg 49-51 Raconteurs Press 2002 ISBN 0971925852
  4. ^ T. Parker Discovering Washington Wines pg 7 Raconteurs Press 2002 ISBN 0971925852

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