zone · SA · registered 1996

Lower Murray

Lower Murray is a registered Australian wine zone, with a hot climate and 22,261 hectares under vine. The Atlas holds 11 producers standing inside its boundary.

Climate

Hot · 24.0°C MJT

Mean January temperature, 2005-2024

Under vine

22,261 ha

Planted vineyard area

Rainfall

302 mm

Annual; 160 mm in the growing season

Degree days

2,201

Growing degree days, October–April

Average crush

504,824 t

Tonnes, 2021-2025

Registered

1996

Entered on the Register of Protected GIs

Area

43,775 km²

Total area of the GI

The boundary

Wine Australia’s spatial interpretation of the GI’s legal description. Producer pins are placed by their own coordinates — this map is how each one was assigned.

Crush by vintage

Tonnes crushed, as reported to Wine Australia. A short bar is a small vintage — frost, drought or fire — not a small region.

523,099
625,278
564,145
456,723
446,465
440,033
202020212022202320242025

Regions within

Each is its own Geographical Indication. A wine grown here may be labelled with either name.

Producers11

These premises stand inside the Lower Murray boundary. Where a producer sources its fruit, and what appears on its label, is the producer’s to state.

Eat9

Stay21

See6

Shops3

Outdoors2

Experiences2

Read the legal description of the Lower Murray GI →

Boundary and regional statistics: Geographical Indications of Australia, © Wine Australia, used under CC BY 4.0. The boundary shown is Wine Australia’s spatial interpretation of the GI’s legal textual description; where the two differ, the text prevails. Synced 25 August 2026.