The Grampians wine region is located in Western Victoria. The climate of the region is Mediterranean and the proximity to the Southern Ocean (between 100 -200 kilometres) provides a cooling influence during summer.
The GI is 9,424 km2 in size and has a total of 651 hectares of vineyards. The main varieties grown in the region are Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Riesling.
Grampians Regional Snapshot 2023-24
Regional Snapshots are one-page profiles updated annually of individual Australian wine regions. They provide at-a-glance summary statistics on: climatic characteristics, viticulture data, winegrape production, and winegrape price and export sales data for wine, compared against the same statistics for the whole of Australia.
Download nowCabernet Sauvignon
Often blended with Shiraz (and other varieties), Cabernet Sauvignon performs well in adverse conditions. Blackcurrant, blackberry and even raspberry flavours dominate without threatening the elegant style of the wine.
Riesling
The style shows tropical lime juice aroma and flavour in the warmer years, with reserved, toasty wines in the cooler vintages.
Shiraz
The style ranges from silky smooth wines with red cherry and plum flavours through to strikingly concentrated wines, redolent with spice, pepper, liquorice and game. There is a common thread to these wines in their elegance and fine tannins, no doubt deriving from the cool conditions under which the grapes have ripened.
- The climate of the region is Mediterranean and the proximity to the Southern Ocean (between 100 -200 kilometres) provides a cooling influence during summer.
- Recognised as a cooler climate grape growing region, the growing season in summer is characterised by warm to hot days and cool to cold nights.
- Autumn is mild and reliably produces the most pleasant weather, perfect for ripening grape.
- The region is especially well suited to later ripening red varieties, such as Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon.
- There are two principal soil types. The first includes quite acidic grey and grey-brown loamy sands and clay loam soils; the second comprises a hard yellow soil with structured clay subsoils, which is also quite acidic and requires lime adjustment.
- None of these soils is especially fertile and unless the pH is significantly increased with the addition of lime and/or gypsum, vine vigour and crop levels will be restricted.