[1] German immigrants in the early-to-mid-19th century founded the wine industry in Missouri, resulting in its wine corridor being called the Missouri "Rhineland".
Later Italian immigrants also entered wine production.
In the mid-1880s, more wine was produced by volume in Missouri than in any other state.
Before prohibition, Missouri was the second-largest wine-producing state in the nation.
Missouri had the first area recognized as a federally designated American Viticultural Area with the Augusta AVA acknowledged on June 20, 1980.