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Wairarapa

Appellation

Wairarapa is a GI in New Zealand.

Region in the south-east of the North Island, including Martinborough. Small producers, best known for Pinot Noir.
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Key facts

Type
GI (Geographical Indications (Wine and Spirits) Registration Act 2006)
Area
593,679 ha registered outline
Centre
41.1415° S, 175.6273° 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.

Where it is

Nearest town
20 km south of Masterton
Nearest city
60 km east of Lower Hutt 114,200 people
To the sea
28 km
Lakes nearby
Wairarapa (27 km)
Same latitude
Austral (Chile)

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

Terrain

Elevation
0–1,499 m
Mean elevation
240 m

Measured over the whole outline on 112,612 elevation cells of about 230 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Inside Wairarapa · 2

Wineries · 3

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Sources

geoBoundaries NZL ADM2 (2021) (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0))

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