region · VIC · registered 1997

Murray Darling

Murray Darling is a registered Australian wine region inside the North West Victoria zone, with a hot climate and 13,490 hectares under vine. This atlas holds 12 wineries standing inside its boundary.

Climate
Hot · 26.2°C
Mean January temperature, 2005-2024
Under vine
13,490 ha
Planted vineyard area
Altitude
19–134 m
Range across the GI
Rainfall
284 mm
Annual; 176 mm in the growing season
Degree days
2,527
Growing degree days, October–April
Average crush
303,177 t
Tonnes, 2021-2025
Registered
1997
Entered on the Register of Protected GIs
Area
25,578 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.

341,927
388,588
314,376
196,367
278,526
311,847
202020212022202320242025

Wineries12

These premises stand inside the Murray Darling 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 Murray Darling 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.