The map shows the official outline with relief, 3D terrain, slope and exposure, climate and soil.
Key facts
Type
GI (Geographical Indications (Wine and Spirits) Registration Act 2006)
Area
835,416 ha registered outline
Centre
38.2526° S, 177.9076° E
Legal basis
Registered with IPONZ. The registered boundaries are drawn on maps; the units here are the districts that contain them.
Outline: Built from the administrative units that contain the area. The legal boundary follows other lines (roads, rivers, farms or altitude), so the real area is smaller.
Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.
Terrain
Elevation
-1–1,598 m
Mean elevation
376 m
Measured over the whole outline on 36,843 elevation cells of about 480 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.
Sources
geoBoundaries NZL ADM2 (2021) (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0))