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Yarra Valley

Appellation

Yarra Valley is a GI region in Australia.

Cool region east of Melbourne, one of the first vineyard areas of Victoria in the 1830s. Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and sparkling wine, with Shiraz on warmer sites.
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Key facts

Type
GI region (Wine Australia)
Protected since
1996-10-30
Area
312,958 ha registered outline
Centre
37.7111° S, 145.6295° 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
12 km south-east of Healesville
Nearest city
42 km north-east of Pakenham 54,118 people
To the sea
60 km
Same latitude
Mulchén (Chile), Balcarce (Argentina)

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

Terrain

Elevation
14–1,390 m
Mean elevation
368 m

Measured over the whole outline on 215,385 elevation cells of about 121 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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