zone · NSW · registered 1996

Big Rivers

Big Rivers is a registered Australian wine zone, with a hot climate and 25,213 hectares under vine. This atlas holds 14 wineries standing inside its boundary.

Climate
Hot · 26.7°C
Mean January temperature, 2005-2024
Under vine
25,213 ha
Planted vineyard area
Rainfall
372 mm
Annual; 230 mm in the growing season
Degree days
2,586
Growing degree days, October–April
Average crush
441,712 t
Tonnes, 2021-2025
Registered
1996
Entered on the Register of Protected GIs
Area
200,103 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.

486,742
558,353
474,831
329,080
399,106
454,328
202020212022202320242025

Regions within

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

Wineries14

These premises stand inside the Big Rivers 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 Big Rivers 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.