region · WA · registered 1996

Great Southern

Great Southern is a registered Australian wine region inside the South West Australia zone, with a mild climate and 2,479 hectares under vine. This atlas holds 25 wineries standing inside its boundary.

Climate
Mild · 20.2°C
Mean January temperature, 2005-2024
Under vine
2,479 ha
Planted vineyard area
Altitude
0–1083 m
Range across the GI
Rainfall
654 mm
Annual; 249 mm in the growing season
Degree days
1,724
Growing degree days, October–April
Average crush
6,677 t
Tonnes, 2021-2025
Registered
1996
Entered on the Register of Protected GIs
Area
17,131 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.

6,112
9,259
7,853
5,321
4,900
6,692
202020212022202320242025

Sub-regions within

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

Wineries25

These premises stand inside the Great Southern 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 Great Southern 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.