page_title: Canberra District wine region
section_title: Climate and geography
hierarchical_section_title: Canberra District wine region / Climate and geography
caption_attribution_description: English: I picked this bunch of Riesling grapes at a vineyard on Spring Range between Murrumbateman and Canberra, south-east Australia, in mid-February 2007.
context_page_description: The Canberra District wine region is located around Canberra in the Capital city of Australia. It covers the northern part of the Australian Capital Territory and an area of New South Wales to the east and north of that, including towns of Bungendore, Murrumbateman and Yass, New South Wales.
  Wine is grown and produced in a triangular area of about 60 km sides bordered by Canberra, Yass, and Bungendore, taking in the important localities of Murrumbateman and Lake George. The district is noted as a cool-climate wine area, but encompasses a substantial climatic range, with the lower altitude and more inland regions near Yass substantially warmer than the higher altitude areas near Bungendore.
context_section_description: The region is part of the Southern Tablelands about 150 kilometres (93 mi) inland from the Pacific Ocean. The region receives moderate, but variable rainfall, and vineyards require supplemental irrigation in most years. Typical vineyard elevations range between 500 and 900 metres (1,600 and 3,000 ft), and the inland location result in relatively high continentality, possibly explaining the affinity for leading varieties Shiraz and Riesling. Promising recent results from Tempranillo may be explained by the strong homoclime to Ribera del Duero.
  Annual rainfall: 630 millimetres (25 in)
  Mean January (late growth period) temp: 20.2 °C (68.4 °F)
  Sunshine hours per day: 7.4
caption: Riesling harvest, February 2007 (due to the drought in Australia.)
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