New Zealand · GI (Geographical Indications (Wine and Spirits) Registration Act 2006)

Gisborne

Appellation

Gisborne is a GI in New Zealand.

On the east coast of the North Island, warm and fertile, long known for Chardonnay.

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Key facts

Type: GI (Geographical Indications (Wine and Spirits) Registration Act 2006)
Area: 835,416 ha outline of the administrative units
Centre: 38.2526° S, 177.9076° E
Legal basis: Registered with IPONZ. The registered boundaries are drawn on maps; the units here are the districts that contain them.

Outline: Built from the administrative units that contain the area. The legal boundary follows other lines (roads, rivers, farms or altitude), so the real area is smaller.

Where it is

Nearest town: 45 km north of Gisborne
Nearest city: 165 km south-east of Tauranga 161,000 people
To the sea: 36 km
Same latitude: Alto Valle de Río Negro (Argentina), Traiguén (Chile)

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

Terrain

Elevation: -1–1,598 m
Mean elevation: 376 m

Measured over the whole outline on 36,843 elevation cells of about 480 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Sources

geoBoundaries NZL ADM2 (2021) (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0))

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