zone · VIC · registered 1996

Central Victoria

Central Victoria is a registered Australian wine zone, with a warm climate and 4,363 hectares under vine. This atlas holds 42 wineries standing inside its boundary.

Climate
Warm · 22.6°C
Mean January temperature, 2005-2024
Under vine
4,363 ha
Planted vineyard area
Rainfall
609 mm
Annual; 329 mm in the growing season
Degree days
1,822
Growing degree days, October–April
Average crush
23,168 t
Tonnes, 2021-2025
Registered
1996
Entered on the Register of Protected GIs
Area
36,325 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.

21,383
30,885
27,017
16,413
19,688
21,788
202020212022202320242025

Regions within

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

Wineries42

These premises stand inside the Central Victoria 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 Central Victoria 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.