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Missouri

Missouri is a wine region in United States, home to 16 wineries, producing red, rose, white wines, known for Norton.

Missouri at a glance: roughly split red/white; known for Norton.
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Missouri's 16 wineries make roughly equal red and white wine; Cabernet Franc is the most common single-grape bottling; wines carry AVA designation.

About the Missouri region

    Location
    In the mid-1880s, wine was produced by volume in Missouri more than in any other state and just before Prohibition, Missouri was the nation's second-largest wine-producing state.
    Climate
    Missouri's climate, with its long, hot summers, good sun exposure, and thin rocky Ozarks soil, is excellent for growing grapes.
    Soils
    In USDA NRCS Soil Data Access results for Missouri survey areas, Alfisols have the largest weighted component acreage, approximately 23,025,145 acres.

Region facts sourced from USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Soil Data Access query for Missouri (MO survey-area prefix), retrieved 2026-07-11. (U.S. Government work / Public Domain (17 U.S.C. § 105)), Wikipedia contributors, "Missouri wine", Wikipedia, revision 1362272585, retrieved 2026-07-11. (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International).

Characteristic grapes

Missouri is best known for Norton. The most-bottled single-varietal wines here are Cabernet Franc, Norton, Vidal Blanc. Missouri's signature grapes often go into blends, so single-grape bottlings skew toward other varieties.

Most common single-grape wines

When Missouri wines are made from a single grape (rather than a blend), these are the most common:

Wine profile

Missouri is roughly split, making substantial red (47%) and white (45%) wine.

133 distinct Missouri wines tracked, spanning the colours and styles below.

  • Red61 · 47%
  • White59 · 45%
  • Rose11 · 8%

Types: Port, Sparkling, Still.

Representative Missouri wines

Selected from stable product-to-region relationships for diversity — not a claim that these are the region's best wines.

  • Amigoni — Merlot
  • Les Bourgeois Vineyards — Vignoles
  • Dale Hollow — Norton
  • Noboleis Vineyards — Dry Rose
  • Amigoni — Tannat
  • St. James Winery — Winemaker Series Seyval
  • Amigoni — Zinfandel
  • Chandler Hill Vineyards — White Wine Blend

Sub-regions & appellations

Within Missouri, these appellationsA legally-defined smaller growing area within a wine region, often with its own grapes and rules. are smaller growing areas, often with their own character:

  • Augusta
  • Ozark Highlands
  • Ozark Mountain
  • Hermann

Quality designations

Wines here carry AVA status — a controlled quality designation.

  • AVAAmerican Viticultural Area — a defined US grape-growing region, marking where the grapes were grown.

United States wine designations

AVA
An American viticultural area is a U.S.-government-recognized delimited grape-growing area.
Understanding the wine data
Designation
The protected-origin or administrative category associated with the wine, interpreted using country-aware rules. The same abbreviation can mean different things in different countries, so we only show the meaning approved for that country.
How this ranking is built

Producers are included when WhatDrink has a canonical producer-to-region relationship supported by the catalogue data. Display order may use represented wine count and relationship confidence to provide useful coverage; it is not a ranking of winery quality, prestige, production volume or critical acclaim.

Representative wines are selected from products with a stable relationship to this region, with preference for clear producer identity and a useful spread of producers, wine styles and designations. Inclusion is not an editorial score and does not mean these are the region’s best wines.

Explore Missouri

Ways to browse Missouri — each count is the size of that specific collection (a subset of the 133 wines tracked above):

  • Red Missouri (47)
  • White Missouri (40)

How to choose a good Missouri wine

Look for the AVA designation — it signals a controlled-origin Missouri wine.

FAQs

Where is Missouri?
In the mid-1880s, wine was produced by volume in Missouri more than in any other state and just before Prohibition , Missouri was the nation's second-largest wine-producing state.
Which grapes are associated with Missouri?
Missouri is represented in the WhatDrink region dataset by Norton. Grape coverage reflects the products currently linked to the region and is not a complete legal planting register.
What do the designation terms on Missouri wines mean?
AVA: An American viticultural area is a U.S.-government-recognized delimited grape-growing area. These terms describe geographical or regulatory categories; they do not by themselves guarantee that one producer or bottle is better than another.
How are wineries and producers selected for Missouri?
Producers are included when WhatDrink has a canonical producer-to-region relationship supported by the catalogue data. Display order may use represented wine count and relationship confidence to provide useful coverage; it is not a ranking of winery quality, prestige, production volume or critical acclaim.
How are representative Missouri wines selected?
Representative wines are selected from products with a stable relationship to this region, with preference for clear producer identity and a useful spread of producers, wine styles and designations. Inclusion is not an editorial score and does not mean these are the region’s best wines.
How much wine data does WhatDrink have for Missouri?
The current regional catalogue contains 133 linked wines from 16 linked producers. Counts describe WhatDrink catalogue coverage and may change as source data is refreshed.

Regional data is aggregated from wine directory and product-catalogue sources; grape and style associations reflect characteristic varieties and may vary by producer and vintage.