Mount Barker

Fast Facts

  • Latitude:
    34°36’S
  • Altitude:
    180–250 m
  • Heat degree days:
    1488
  • Growing season rainfall:
    287 mm
  • Mean January temp:
    19°C
  • Harvest:
    Early March to mid-April
  • Chief viticultural hazard:
    Spring frost; late vintage rain

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Mount Barker is not only the senior subregion of the Great Southern, but was the first to be declared in Australia. If this were not enough, it was also here that the first vines in the Great Southern region were planted. It is large-scale, gently undulating, largely open grazing country, with widely scattered vineyards separated by large distances. But there is a feeling of ‘oneness’ akin to that of a micro-terroir of France, a hundredth of the size of Mount Barker.

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