region · NSW · registered 1998

Hilltops

Hilltops is a registered Australian wine region inside the Southern New South Wales zone, with a hot climate and 594 hectares under vine. This atlas holds 4 wineries standing inside its boundary.

Climate
Hot · 23.9°C
Mean January temperature, 2005-2024
Under vine
594 ha
Planted vineyard area
Altitude
249–716 m
Range across the GI
Rainfall
658 mm
Annual; 393 mm in the growing season
Degree days
1,960
Growing degree days, October–April
Average crush
1,016 t
Tonnes, 2021-2025
Registered
1998
Entered on the Register of Protected GIs
Area
3,143 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.

1,170
1,281
1,319
829
481
485
202020212022202320242025

Wineries4

These premises stand inside the Hilltops boundary. Where a winery sources its fruit, and what appears on its label, is the winery’s to state.

Chalkers Crossing Wines
Young, NSW
Freeman Vineyards
Prunevale, NSW
Grove Estate Wines
Young, NSW
Moppity Vineyards
Barwang, NSW

Read the legal description of the Hilltops 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.