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Gundagai Wine Region – NSW
The Gundagai wine region is in the centre of 4 other wine regions with Hilltops to the north, Canberra District to the east, Tumbarumba to the south and Riverina to the west. It also spans 2 Wine Zones with Southern NSW to the east and Big Rivers to the west, although the region is technically part of Southern NSW.
This span of geographies results in a mix of climates in the region, with the north-east corner experiencing warm to hot climates at relatively low elevations to the west of the Great Dividing Range and the south-east corner experiencing a cool to cold climate as it approaches the Snowy Mountains.
The first vines were planted at Kyeamba, south-east of Wagga Wagga in the late 1840s. The McWilliam family later established the successful Markview vineyard at Junee in 1877, but grapevines were largely absent in the region from the 1920s to the mid-1990s. Since 1995 there have been numerous plantings, and by 2003 there were around 300 hectares of vine under cultivation.
