{
    "id": "mo-wine-avas",
    "name": "Missouri American Viticultural Areas",
    "description": "American Viticultural Areas that include Missouri, with date established and size as the Missouri Wine and Grape Board article prints them.",
    "page": "https://itsmissouri.com/things-to-do/wine-country/",
    "csv": "https://itsmissouri.com/data/downloads/mo-wine-avas.csv",
    "json": "https://itsmissouri.com/data/downloads/mo-wine-avas.json",
    "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "attribution": "It's Missouri (itsmissouri.com), CC BY 4.0",
    "citation": "It's Missouri (2026). Missouri American Viticultural Areas. https://itsmissouri.com/things-to-do/wine-country/",
    "publisher": "It's Missouri",
    "geo_scope": "Missouri, USA",
    "last_checked": "2026-10-30",
    "row_count": 5,
    "columns": [
        "ava",
        "established",
        "size",
        "notes",
        "source_url",
        "checked"
    ],
    "column_notes": {
        "ava": "Ava (as printed on the source page; blank means not stated)",
        "established": "Established (as printed on the source page; blank means not stated)",
        "size": "Size (as printed on the source page; blank means not stated)",
        "notes": "Notes (as printed on the source page; blank means not stated)",
        "source_url": "Page the row was read from",
        "checked": "Date (YYYY-MM-DD) the row was read"
    },
    "rows": [
        {
            "ava": "Augusta",
            "established": "June 20, 1980",
            "size": "15 square miles",
            "notes": "Printed as the first American Viticultural Area in the United States",
            "source_url": null,
            "checked": "2026-10-30"
        },
        {
            "ava": "Ozark Mountain",
            "established": "August 1, 1986",
            "size": "About 3.5 million acres",
            "notes": "Spans southern Missouri, northwest Arkansas and northeast Oklahoma; contains the Augusta, Hermann and Ozark Highlands AVAs",
            "source_url": null,
            "checked": "2026-10-30"
        },
        {
            "ava": "Hermann",
            "established": "February 27, 1987",
            "size": "51,200 acres",
            "notes": "Between St. Louis and Jefferson City; German settlers planted grapes from the 1830s",
            "source_url": null,
            "checked": "2026-10-30"
        },
        {
            "ava": "Ozark Highlands",
            "established": "September 30, 1987",
            "size": "1,280,000 acres in parts of eleven counties",
            "notes": "Includes St. James; grape tradition from the 1870s",
            "source_url": null,
            "checked": "2026-10-30"
        },
        {
            "ava": "Loess Hills District",
            "established": "April 4, 2016",
            "size": "12,897 square miles",
            "notes": "Western Iowa and northwest Missouri",
            "source_url": null,
            "checked": "2026-10-30"
        }
    ]
}