zone · NSW · registered 1996

Southern New South Wales

Southern New South Wales is a registered Australian wine zone, with a mild climate and 1,748 hectares under vine. This atlas holds 37 wineries standing inside its boundary.

Climate
Mild · 20.8°C
Mean January temperature, 2005-2024
Under vine
1,748 ha
Planted vineyard area
Rainfall
798 mm
Annual; 487 mm in the growing season
Degree days
1,444
Growing degree days, October–April
Average crush
7,412 t
Tonnes, 2021-2025
Registered
1996
Entered on the Register of Protected GIs
Area
55,725 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.

1,595
4,391
7,674
9,183
7,840
8,121
202020212022202320242025

Regions within

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

Wineries37

These premises stand inside the Southern New South Wales 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 New South Wales 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.