Plettenberg Bay

Appellation

Plettenberg Bay is a Wine of Origin district of Cape South Coast in South Africa.

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Key facts

Type: Wine of Origin district
Within: Cape South Coast
Area: 99,233 ha registered outline
Centre: 33.9460° S, 23.4318° E
Legal basis: Wine of Origin Scheme (Liquor Products Act 60 of 1989); areas published in the Government Gazette and administered by SAWIS.

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: 13 km north-east of Plettenberg Bay
Nearest city: 37 km east of Knysna 68,659 people
To the sea: 7.1 km
Same latitude: Valle de Uco (Argentina), Margaret River (Australia), 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: -1–1,583 m
Mean elevation: 355 m

Measured over the whole outline on 62,191 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 · 1

Bramon

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Sources

geoBoundaries ZAF ADM3 (2020) (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO))

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