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OK, instead of copying the old "American Viticulture Area" manually and making that a redirect page, I probably should have just clicked on the "Move This Page" link. Just realized that. Sorry! I'm still a newbie. :-)

[edit] AVA Categories

French and Italian AOCs have been categorized already. I'm wondering if there is a reason why AVAs haven't been yet, other than no one having tackled it yet... --Arnaudh 19:31, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

• Working on the Oregon ones; now have Category:American Viticultural Areas. --EngineerScotty 20:13, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Napa Valley

Removed Napa Valley because it is not an AVA.

Wrong.

Title 27: Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms PART 9—AMERICAN VITICULTURAL AREAS Subpart C—Approved American Viticultural Areas

§ 9.23 Napa Valley.

(a) Name. The name of the viticultural area described in this section is “Napa Valley.”

(b) Approved maps. The maps showing the boundaries of the Napa Valley viticultural area are...

http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=ce096c8397b39ba7799273bc60688d37&rgn=div8&view=text&node=27:1.0.1.1.7.3.41.3&idno=27 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Calton (talk • contribs) 04:45, 2 April 2007 (UTC).