Clare Valley

Appellation

Clare Valley is a GI region of Mount Lofty Ranges in Australia.

A series of narrow valleys north of Adelaide, warm by day and cool at night. With Eden Valley it is Australia's classic home of dry Riesling.

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Key facts

Type: GI region (Wine Australia)
Protected since: 1999-03-25
Area: 68,010 ha registered outline
Centre: 33.9068° S, 138.6497° E
State: South Australia
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: 78 km north of Gawler
Nearest city: 114 km north of Adelaide 1,469,163 people
To the sea: 57 km
Same latitude: Valle de Uco (Argentina), Franschhoek (South Africa), Valle de Leyda (Chile), Oceánica (Uruguay)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 187–603 m
Mean elevation: 396 m

Measured over the whole outline on 42,776 elevation cells of about 127 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Wineries · 8

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