Are you a wine or tourist organization interested in creating or updating your regional wine map? A detailed map featuring wineries and vineyards within a particular region is an indispensable communication and marketing tool. This holds especially true for organizations that promote and endorse wine regions across the United States recognized Read more…
For wine associations supporting American Viticultural Areas (AVAs), the value of a precise and user-friendly map cannot be understated. This article outlines a comprehensive approach to creating custom AVA maps that display the vineyards and wineries using Google Maps. The Petaluma Gap Wine Growers Alliance (PGWA) was working with an Read more…
I was creating an AVA map for a regional association when I realized there are multiple data sources for mapping boundaries. Besides TTB, there is another source for spatial files of boundaries, the American Viticultural Areas (AVAs) Digitizing Project. It was 2017, and wineries were using designated grape-growing regions on Read more…
How do wine consumers and tourists find information on local wineries? They often find the websites of regional wine associations. According to the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), there are 147 established American Viticultural Areas (AVAs) in California. About half of these designated wine-grape growing regions are supported by regional winery Read more…