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Tennessee

Tennessee is a wine region in United States, home to 17 wineries.

About the Tennessee region

    Location
    Tennessee wine refers to wine made from grapes grown in the U.S.
    Climate
    Because of the cool climate and short growing season, the region is suitable for growing cold-hardy grape varietals such as Marquette, Vidal Blanc, and Frontenac, which do not have a lengthy maturation time.
    Soils
    In USDA NRCS Soil Data Access results for Tennessee survey areas, Ultisols have the largest weighted component acreage, approximately 10,658,711 acres.

Region facts sourced from USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Soil Data Access query for Tennessee (TN survey-area prefix), retrieved 2026-07-11. (U.S. Government work / Public Domain (17 U.S.C. § 105)), Wikipedia contributors, "Tennessee wine", Wikipedia, revision 1357184265, retrieved 2026-07-11. (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International).

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.

FAQs

Where is Tennessee?
Tennessee wine refers to wine made from grapes grown in the U.S. state of Tennessee .
How are wineries and producers selected for Tennessee?
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 much wine data does WhatDrink have for Tennessee?
The current regional catalogue contains 0 linked wines from 17 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.