region · SA · registered 1999

Clare Valley

Clare Valley is a registered Australian wine region inside the Mount Lofty Ranges zone, with a warm climate and 4,993 hectares under vine. This atlas holds 20 wineries standing inside its boundary.

Climate
Warm · 22.9°C
Mean January temperature, 2005-2024
Under vine
4,993 ha
Planted vineyard area
Altitude
190–609 m
Range across the GI
Rainfall
530 mm
Annual; 229 mm in the growing season
Degree days
1,931
Growing degree days, October–April
Average crush
21,624 t
Tonnes, 2021-2025
Registered
1999
Entered on the Register of Protected GIs
Area
680 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.

13,397
22,131
28,955
25,301
18,707
19,116
202020212022202320242025

Wineries20

These premises stand inside the Clare Valley 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 Clare Valley 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.