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Nelson

Appellation

Nelson is a GI in New Zealand.

Sunny region at the top of the South Island, west of Marlborough. Aromatic whites and Pinot Noir from the Waimea Plains and the Moutere Hills.
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Key facts

Type
GI (Geographical Indications (Wine and Spirits) Registration Act 2006)
Area
1,007,895 ha outline of the administrative units
Centre
41.4016° S, 172.9110° 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
28 km west of Stoke
Nearest city
34 km west of Nelson 54,400 people
To the sea
19 km
Rivers nearby
Motueka (6.6 km) · Motueka Left Branch (23 km)

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

Terrain

Elevation
-2–2,180 m
Mean elevation
620 m

Measured over the whole outline on 48,814 elevation cells of about 459 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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Sources

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

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