Tags: Wine Region.
The Catoctin AVA is an American Viticultural Area located in the Frederick and Washington counties of western Maryland. The region is bordered by Catoctin Mountain to the east the Pennsylvania border to the north South Mountain to the west and the Potomac River to the south. Catoctin is Algonquian for speckled rock (c.f. Ojibwa gidagasin: speckled rock flecked rock or spotted rock) a geological feature of the area. Two commercial wineries operate in the AVA.
