zone · NSW · registered 1996

Northern Slopes

Northern Slopes is a registered Australian wine zone, with a hot climate and 115 hectares under vine. This atlas holds 2 wineries standing inside its boundary.

Climate
Hot · 23.8°C
Mean January temperature, 2005-2024
Under vine
115 ha
Planted vineyard area
Rainfall
750 mm
Annual; 530 mm in the growing season
Degree days
2,216
Growing degree days, October–April
Average crush
18 t
Tonnes, 2021-2025
Registered
1996
Entered on the Register of Protected GIs
Area
88,587 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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Regions within

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

Wineries2

These premises stand inside the Northern Slopes 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 Northern Slopes 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.