region · SA · registered 2000

Kangaroo Island

Kangaroo Island is a registered Australian wine region inside the Fleurieu zone, with a mild climate and 144 hectares under vine. This atlas holds 5 wineries standing inside its boundary.

Climate
Mild · 20.0°C
Mean January temperature, 2005-2024
Under vine
144 ha
Planted vineyard area
Altitude
0–316 m
Range across the GI
Rainfall
602 mm
Annual; 194 mm in the growing season
Degree days
1,611
Growing degree days, October–April
Average crush
159 t
Tonnes, 2021-2025
Registered
2000
Entered on the Register of Protected GIs
Area
4,405 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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176
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144
172
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Wineries5

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

Bay of Shoals Wines
Kingscote, SA
Dudley Wines
Cuttlefish Bay, SA
False Cape Wines
Dudley East, SA
Springs Road Kangaroo Island
South Australia, SA
The Islander Estate
Cygnet River, SA

Read the legal description of the Kangaroo Island 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.