Yarra Valley

Fast Facts

  • Latitude:
    37°49’S
  • Altitude:
    50–400 m
  • Heat degree days:
    1250–1352
  • Growing season rainfall:
    400 mm
  • Mean January temp:
    17.9–19.4°C
  • Harvest:
    Early March to early May
  • Chief viticultural hazard:
    Birds; mildew

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As I have acknowledged elsewhere, I am hopelessly biased when it comes to the Yarra Valley, for it is where I live, where I work – making wine and writing about it – and it is where I hope I will die when my time comes. It is a place of extreme beauty, of constantly changing light, of colour and of mood. It offers landscapes on an heroic scale with the same profligacy as it offers intimate vistas. Once you have seen it, you cannot help but love it.

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