Viticulture in South Dakota

South Dakota
Official name:	State of South Dakota
Appellation type:	State
Year of establishment:	1889
Country:	United States
Recognized cultivation area:	199,730 km² (77,116 sqmi)
Grape varieties:	Brianna , Chardonnay , DeChaunac , Edelweiss , Frontenac , Frontenac Gris , Kay Gray , La Crescent , La Crosse , Louise Swenson , Maréchal Foch , Marquette , Niagara , Prairie Star , Seyval Blanc , St. Croix , St. Pepin , Swenson White , Valiant
Number of wineries:	13

Viticulture in South Dakota describes viticulture in the American state of South Dakota . Under US law, every state and county is by definition a protected designation of origin and does not need to be recognized as such by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives .

South Dakota has a continental climate with average temperatures of down to −10 ° C in winter and up to 28 ° C in summer. The only native grapevine that still thrives well under these conditions is the riparian vine (vitis riparia). The few vintners in the state use the frost-hardy and precocious French hybrid vines , which have been supplemented by American grape varieties in recent years. The winery Prairie Berry Winery builds now successfully whites of the grape variety Chardonnay from. The southern part of the state is better for growing vines.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Appellation America (2007). "South Dakota: Appellation Description" . Last view of this page on 19/01/2001 (subject to a fee).
2. ↑ South Dakota Wineries ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. published by South Dakota State University 

Web links

• Viticulture in South Dakota

literature

• André Dominé (Ed.): Wine . Tandem Verlag, Königswinter 2007, ISBN 978-3-8331-4344-1 .
• Bruce Cass, Jancis Robinson : The Oxford Companion to the Wine of North America . Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2000, ISBN 0-19-860114-X .