region · SA · registered 1998

Adelaide Hills

Adelaide Hills is a registered Australian wine region inside the Mount Lofty Ranges zone, with a warm climate and 3,831 hectares under vine. This atlas holds 31 wineries standing inside its boundary.

Climate
Warm · 21.1°C
Mean January temperature, 2005-2024
Under vine
3,831 ha
Planted vineyard area
Altitude
149–714 m
Range across the GI
Rainfall
754 mm
Annual; 267 mm in the growing season
Degree days
1,690
Growing degree days, October–April
Average crush
21,093 t
Tonnes, 2021-2025
Registered
1998
Entered on the Register of Protected GIs
Area
1,451 km²
Total area of the GI

The boundary

Wine Australia’s spatial interpretation of the GI’s legal description. Winery pins are placed by their own coordinates — this map is how each one was assigned.

Crush by vintage

Tonnes crushed, as reported to Wine Australia. A short bar is a small vintage — frost, drought or fire — not a small region.

13,513
33,421
22,699
19,950
16,186
26,927
202020212022202320242025

Sub-regions within

Each is its own Geographical Indication. A wine grown here may be labelled with either name.

Wineries31

These premises stand inside the Adelaide Hills boundary. Where a winery sources its fruit, and what appears on its label, is the winery’s to state.

Read the legal description of the Adelaide Hills GI →

Boundary and regional statistics: Geographical Indications of Australia, © Wine Australia, used under CC BY 4.0. The boundary shown is Wine Australia’s spatial interpretation of the GI’s legal textual description; where the two differ, the text prevails.