The Gippsland Wine Region - Melbourne

The Gippsland region remains Victoria's most remote and least-known winegrowing region. Yet, as with so many other parts of Victoria, it produced fine table wine in the nineteenth century, and its rebirth goes back to 1970. As things stand at the moment, Gippsland is a zone and a coextensive region, but with three generally recognised sub regions: South Gippsland, West Gippsland, and East Gippsland.

Types of Wine/Grapes

Disputes pride of place with Chardonnay; the style varies somewhat throughout the subregions, tending richer and somehow slightly more rustic in east and west Gippsland, but in the South Gippsland subregion Bass Phillip shows it is capable of making what many regard as one of Australia's greatest Pinot Noir styles. Chardonnay is successfully made in all subregions, with greatest success in East Gippsland, where low yields produce wines of wholly exceptional flavour, structure and overall impact, led by Nicholson river.

Climate/Geography

It is inevitable that the variation between the climate of the thre subregions should vary. South Gippsland is the coolest and wettest. West Gippsland centred on Maffra and the Latrobe Valley, is drier and a little warmer that both South and East Gippsland. East Gippsland has a more Mediterranean climate which corresponds quite closely to that of the Yarra Valley.

For more information about the Gippsland wine region visit:

www.visitvictoria.com/wineries