Walker Bay

Appellation

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

Cool maritime district around Hermanus, including the Hemel-en-Aarde wards, known for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.

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Key facts

Type: Wine of Origin district
Within: Cape South Coast
Area: 167,511 ha registered outline
Centre: 34.4988° S, 19.5306° 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: 9.5 km south-east of Stanford
Nearest city: 29 km south-east of Hermanus 56,139 people
To the sea: 16 km
Same latitude: Metropolitana (Uruguay), Mendoza (Argentina), Barossa Valley (Australia), Valle de Colchagua (Chile)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 0–1,222 m
Mean elevation: 181 m

Measured over the whole outline on 26,959 elevation cells of about 252 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Inside Walker Bay · 3

Wineries · 9

Bartho Eksteen
Benguela Cove Lagoon Wine Estate
Bouchard Finlayson
Hamilton Russel
Lomond Wines
Southern Right
The Giant Periwinkle
Walker Bay
Whalehaven

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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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