What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow.
Where it is
Lower Murray in Australia
Boundary: Eurac Research PDO inventory (CC0). Country outlines: Natural Earth. Dots on the zone map are the vineyard points used for climate.
01 · Under the vines
Soils
Measured at the vineyard points
- pH
- 8.4
- Clay
- 24%
- Sand
- 65%
- Silt
- 11%
- Organic carbon
- 12 g/kg
- Coarse fragments
- 12%
- Bulk density
- 1.36 g/cm³
- CEC
- 17 cmol(c)/kg
SoilGrids 2.0 (ISRIC), 250 m, 0-60cm thickness-weighted mean, averaged across this page's vineyard points.
The science, honestly: how much soil shapes the wine is debated. Shares of each named soil type are rarely published.
02 · Where the numbers come from
Sources
- Wine Australia GI Zones (South Australian Government GIS portal) — Lower Murray · Wine Australia / Government of South Australia
- SoilGrids 2.0 · ISRIC - World Soil Information · CC BY 4.0
Still to check (2)
- No containing Zone/Region found by geometry (best overlap 0%) -- check this GI's boundary.
- Wine Australia's GI determinations are boundary and name only: no production rules captured yet. Australia's Label Integrity Program requires a minimum share of the stated variety/vintage/region, broadly like the USA's 85% AVA rule, but the exact current threshold isn't sourced yet -- add with a real citation, don't state it from memory.