New South Wales
New South Wales was the first State in Australia to be colonised by Europeans and subsequently was the first to grow the grapevine. The State, lying on the continent's east coast, boasts an incredibly diverse range of climates, such as the Shoalhaven Coast region lying south of Sydney, to Alpine, across the top of the Great Dividing Range, where hardy growers persist at over 500m above sea level.
West of the
Great Dividing Range and along the inland flowing
Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers are the warm-climate regions of Riverina
and Perricoota and the northern portion of the Swan Hill and Murray
Darling. One of Australia's best known wine zones - the Hunter Valley -
is in New South Wales.
