Canberra District

Appellation

Canberra District is a GI region in Australia.

Cool upland region around the national capital, mostly in New South Wales. Known for Shiraz, often co-fermented with a little Viognier, and for Riesling.

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Key facts

Type: GI region (Wine Australia)
Protected since: 1998-02-09
Area: 861,184 ha registered outline
Centre: 34.9965° S, 149.0484° E
State: New South Wales
Legal basis: Wine Australia Act 2013; Register of Protected GIs and Other Terms.

Outline: From the Wine Australia GI register, via the adynak/WineRegions copy.

Where it is

Nearest town: 20 km north of Ngunnawal
Nearest city: 33 km north of Canberra 367,752 people
To the sea: 132 km
Same latitude: Mendoza (Argentina), Valle Central (Chile)

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation: 266–1,388 m
Mean elevation: 665 m

Measured over the whole outline on 138,406 elevation cells of about 250 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Wineries · 15

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