regionCentral Otago
The southernmost commercial wine region on earth, and the only part of New Zealand with a true continental climate — frost in the spring, forty-degree swings in a day, schist under everything.
The story Cited
Vines went from 92 hectares to 1,930 in about two decades. Pinot noir takes over 80% of the plantings, which is a bet no other region of this size has made.
Facts
| country | New Zealand |
|---|---|
| level | gi |
| soil | schist, loess, glacial gravel |
| region | Central Otago, New Zealand |
| where | -45.0200, 169.2000 (region) · OpenStreetMap · open in maps Cited |
| confidence | high · updated 2026-09-16 |
Numbers somebody published
| Planted | 1930 ha — Central Otago wine region |
|---|---|
| Share of plantings given to pinot noir | 80 % — Central Otago wine region stated as over 80% |
Nothing in this table is estimated here. Where a figure is missing it is missing, and the row is not written.
Near here
Straight-line kilometres; the road is always longer. The finder sorts every cellar on the map from wherever you are.
- 3.7 km — Felton Road cellar
- 35 km — Rippon cellar
Its kin
Who points back
Sources
Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.