Rhode Island wine

Viticulture in Rhode Iceland called viticulture in the American state of Rhode Iceland. 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.

Viticulture in Rhode Iceland began in 1663, when expressly ordered Charles II of England the cultivation of vines in a royal charter. Despite its northerly location, the climate in Rhode Iceland is relatively mild. In addition to a warm, humid summers with average high temperatures of 28 ° C, the temperatures drop below freezing in the winter. The proximity to the sea, however, acts in mitigation so that some European noble grapes thrive.

After the phylloxera, powdery mildew (powdery mildew and downy mildew of grapevine) and later the economic crisis afflict the winemakers strong, came as almost everywhere in the United States of viticulture at the latest by the alcohol prohibition to a halt.

The modern viticulture began in 1975 with the founding of the winery Sakonnet Vineyards in Little Compton.