Margaret River

Appellation

Margaret River is a GI region of South West Australia in Australia.

Region in Western Australia between the Indian Ocean and the Leeuwin Ridge, planted from the late 1960s. The ocean keeps the climate mild; Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay are its best-known wines.

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Key facts

Type: GI region (Wine Australia)
Protected since: 1996-10-30
Area: 213,723 ha registered outline
Centre: 33.9534° S, 115.1467° E
State: Western Australia
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: 6.5 km east of Margaret River
Nearest city: 83 km south-west of Bunbury 76,452 people
To the sea: 16 km
Rivers nearby: Blackwood (15 km)
Same latitude: Valle de Uco (Argentina), Stellenbosch (South Africa), Valle de Leyda (Chile), Oceánica (Uruguay)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 0–232 m
Mean elevation: 71 m

Measured over the whole outline on 535,367 elevation cells of about 63 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Wineries · 25

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