McLaren Vale

Fast Facts

  • Latitude:
    34°14’S
  • Altitude:
    50–200 m
  • Heat degree days:
    1910
  • Growing season rainfall:
    180 mm
  • Mean January temp:
    21.7°C
  • Harvest:
    Mid February to late April
  • Chief viticultural hazard:
    Drought

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Unlike the Silesian background of the Barossa and Clare Valleys, the development of the Southern Vales – from Reynella to McLaren Vale to Langhorne Creek – was almost exclusively due to the efforts of Englishmen. More precisely, to the efforts of three men: John Reynell, Thomas Hardy and Dr A. C. Kelly, with a lesser contribution from George Manning at Hope Farm and Frank Potts at Langhorne Creek.

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