American Viticultural Area News
This week, we established the new Virginia Peninsula American viticultural area (AVA), and modified the boundaries of the existing Arroyo Seco and Santa Lucia Highlands AVAs. We took these actions in response to petitions from local vineyard owners and vintners.
Virginia Peninsula: The 673,059-acre Virginia Peninsula viticultural area is located in southeastern Virginia. See Docket No. TTB–2020–0010 for all documents and public comments related to this new AVA.
Arroyo Seco and Santa Lucia Highlands: We modified the boundaries of these 2 existing Monterey County, California, viticultural areas as follows:
- Approximately 376 acres were removed from the Santa Lucia Highlands viticultural area, and
- 148 acres were removed from the Arroyo Seco viticultural area and added to the Santa Lucia Highlands viticultural area.
You can view all documents and public comments related to these changes in Docket No. TTB–2020–0007.
TIP: If you wish to label your wines with the Virginia Peninsula AVA or change your appellation due to the changes to the borders of the Arroyo Seco and Santa Lucia AVAs, you must apply for a new Certificate of Label Approval (COLA). Please wait until their effective date of September 24, 2021, to apply.
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