Geelong

Fast Facts

  • Latitude:
    38°07’S
  • Altitude:
    20–150 m
  • Heat degree days:
    1470
  • Growing season rainfall:
    250 mm
  • Mean January temp:
    19°C
  • Harvest:
    Early March to end April
  • Chief viticultural hazard:
    Drought

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Discover Geelong with James Halliday's Wine Atlas of Australia

It may come as a major surprise to find that 140 years ago Geelong was the most important winemaking district in Victoria, if not Australia. In 1861 there were 225 hectares under vine, and by the end of that decade 400 hectares. It also shares with the Yarra Valley the unusual distinction of being primarily established by Swiss vignerons, drawn to Australia by the Swiss-born wife of the first governor of Victoria.

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