Iowa wine

Viticulture in Iowa called viticulture in the American state of Iowa. According to U.S. law, each state and each county is a protected designation of origin by definition and does not need to be recognized by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as such.

Due to the early settlement and a wine history since 1846, Iowa was still mid-19th century one of the major growing areas of the United States. Like almost everywhere came the wine at the latest by the alcohol prohibition to a halt. Currently, there is no single defined American Viticultural Area ( AVA short ), although the wine since the 1990s, clearly gaining momentum.

Apart from a very cool climate, which promised so far almost exclusively French hybrid vines, many new plantings suffer from the previously excessive use of the herbicide 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, which also destroys vines.