zone · SA · registered 1996

Far North

Far North is a registered Australian wine zone, with a hot climate and 176 hectares under vine. This atlas holds 0 wineries standing inside its boundary.

Climate
Hot · 28.8°C
Mean January temperature, 2005-2024
Under vine
176 ha
Planted vineyard area
Rainfall
186 mm
Annual; 128 mm in the growing season
Degree days
3,160
Growing degree days, October–April
Average crush
740 t
Tonnes, 2021-2025
Registered
1996
Entered on the Register of Protected GIs
Area
858,296 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.

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1,262
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Regions within

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

Read the legal description of the Far North 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.