region · NSW · registered 2002

Southern Highlands

Southern Highlands is a registered Australian wine region inside the South Coast zone, with a mild climate and 140 hectares under vine. This atlas holds 11 wineries standing inside its boundary.

Climate
Mild · 20.8°C
Mean January temperature, 2005-2024
Under vine
140 ha
Planted vineyard area
Altitude
54–906 m
Range across the GI
Rainfall
941 mm
Annual; 631 mm in the growing season
Degree days
1,624
Growing degree days, October–April
Average crush
26 t
Tonnes, 2021-2025
Registered
2002
Entered on the Register of Protected GIs
Area
2,687 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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Wineries11

These premises stand inside the Southern Highlands 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 Southern Highlands 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.