[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 27, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 27CFR9.60]

[Page 132-133]
 
            TITLE 27--ALCOHOL, TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND FIREARMS
 
 CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS, DEPARTMENT OF THE 
                                TREASURY
 
PART 9--AMERICAN VITICULTURAL AREAS--Table of Contents
 
             Subpart C--Approved American Viticultural Areas
 
Sec. 9.60  Shenandoah Valley.

    (a) Name. The name of the viticultural area described in this 
section is ``Shenandoah Valley.''
    (b) Approved maps. The appropriate maps for determining the 
boundaries of the Shenandoah Valley viticultural area are four U.S.G.S. 
Eastern United States 1:250,000 scale maps. The maps are titled: Roanoke 
(1971), Charlottesville (1956, with a revision in 1965), Cumberland 
(1956, revised 1969) and Baltimore (1957, revised 1978).
    (c) Boundaries. The Shenandoah Valley Viticultural area is located 
in Frederick, Clarke, Warren, Shenandoah, Page, Rockingham, Augusta, 
Rockbridge, Botetourt, and Amherst Counties in Virginia, and Berkeley 
and Jefferson Counties in West Virginia. The boundaries are as follows:
    (1) The boundary line starts at the point of the intersection of the 
Potomac River and the Virginia-West Virginia State line approximately 
eight miles east of Charlestown, West Virginia.
    (2) Then the boundary proceeds southwesterly approximately 14.8 
miles along the State line, which essentially follows the crest of the 
Blue Ridge Mountains, to its intersection with the western border line 
of Clarke County, Virginia.
    (3) Then the boundary continues approximately 13.8 miles 
southwesterly along the county line and the crest of the Blue Ridge to 
its intersection with the western boundary line of Warren County, 
Virginia.
    (4) Then the boundary continues approximately 15 miles along the 
Warren County line to its intersection with the Skyline Drive.
    (5) Then the boundary continues approximately 71 miles in a 
southwesterly direction along the Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge to 
its intersection with the Blue Ridge Parkway.
    (6) Then the boundary continues approximately 53 miles in a 
southeasterly direction along the Blue Ridge Parkway to its intersection 
with the James River.
    (7) Then the boundary proceeds approximately 44 miles along the 
James River in a west-northwesterly direction to its intersection with 
the northwest boundary line of the Jefferson National Forest near Eagle 
Rock.
    (8) Then the boundary proceeds approximately 10.5 miles in a 
northeasterly direction along the Jefferson National Forest line and 
along the crest of North Mountain to its intersection with the western 
boundary line of Rockbridge County.
    (9) Then the boundary continues approximately 23 miles along the 
county line in the same northeasterly direction to its intersection with 
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.
    (10) Then the boundary continues approximately 23 miles along the 
railroad between the Great North Mountain and the Little North Mountain 
to its intersection with the southeastern boundary line of the George 
Washington National Forest at Buffalo Gap.
    (11) Then the boundary continues approximately 81 miles 
northeasterly along the George Washington National Forest Line to the 
Vertical Control Station, (elevation 1883), on the crest of Little North 
Mountain approximately 3 miles west of Van Buren Furnace.
    (12) Then the boundary line continues approximately 53 miles 
northeasterly

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along the crest of Little North Mountain to its intersection with the 
Potomac River in Fort Frederick State Park.
    (13) Then the boundary continues approximately 47.4 miles 
southeasterly along the Potomac River to the beginning point at that 
Rivers intersection with the boundary line between West Virginia and 
Virginia.

[T.D. ATF-120, 47 FR 57698, Dec. 28, 1982, as amended by T.D. ATF-249, 
52 FR 5958, Feb. 27, 1987]