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Hunter

Appellation

Hunter is a GI region of Hunter Valley in Australia. It lies 14 km south of Muswellbrook and 70 km north-west of Maitland.

One of Australia's oldest wine regions, north of Sydney. Humid and warm, it makes a unique style of low-alcohol Semillon that ages for decades, and medium-bodied Shiraz.
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Key facts

Type
GI region (Wine Australia)
Protected since
1997-03-18
Centre
32.3813° S, 150.9443° E
State
New South Wales
Legal basis
Wine Australia Act 2013; Register of Protected GIs and Other Terms.

Outline: Shown as a point: the copy of this boundary available to the atlas is incomplete. The official Wine Australia outline will replace it.

Where it is

Nearest town
14 km south of Muswellbrook
Nearest city
70 km north-west of Maitland 89,597 people
To the sea
99 km
Same latitude
Valle del Aconcagua (Chile), Western Cape (South Africa), Las Heras (Argentina)

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

Inside Hunter · 3

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