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Heathcote

Appellation

Heathcote is a GI region of Central Victoria in Australia.

Central Victorian region on red Cambrian soils along the Mount Camel Range, best known for dense Shiraz.
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Key facts

Type
GI region (Wine Australia)
Protected since
2002-08-21
Area
191,294 ha registered outline
Centre
36.7450° S, 144.7221° E
State
Victoria
Legal basis
Wine Australia Act 2013; Register of Protected GIs and Other Terms.

Outline: From the Wine Australia GI register, via the adynak/WineRegions copy.

Where it is

Nearest town
39 km east of Bendigo
Nearest city
93 km north of Sunbury 38,851 people
To the sea
126 km
Same latitude
Valle del Itata (Chile)

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation
106–591 m
Mean elevation
222 m

Measured over the whole outline on 128,636 elevation cells of about 122 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Wineries · 1

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