https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/12/22/why-cincinnati-called-queen-city/4007103001/
It's the real thing,
From Henry Wadsworth Longfellows poem about Cincinnati "Catawba Wine" that we all love so well:
The winds and the birds shall deliver
To the Queen of the West,
In her garlands dressed,
On the banks of the Beautiful River.
(This would be different from Longfellows poem: "Cowabunga Wine" about Bart Simpson's home town, Springfield.)