New South Wales Wines

New South Wales

The birthplace of Australian Wine. From historic wine regions to exciting, new grape-growing areas, there's so much to discover in New South Wales. The 16 wine regions of New South Wales represent a diversity of climate and terroir unequalled in any other Australian state.

James Busby’s collection of 362 vines, originally planted at the Botanical Gardens, was the most significant development in the early history as cuttings of these vines made their way to other parts of NSW, Victoria and South Australia. 

The State, lying on the continent’s east coast, boasts an incredibly diverse range of climates, including coastal, like 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. Moving west over 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 and most historic wine regions – the Hunter Valley – is located just north of Sydney, Australia's business and multicultural centre.

Hunter Valley 

As the oldest wine region in Australia, the Hunter Valley has been consistently producing wine since the early 19th century. Many of the vine varieties in the Hunter Valley were introduced in the 1830s. The vine cuttings originated from France and Spain and were the beginnings of many of the vines here for todays famous  Semillon, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Verdelho wines. 

Other notable regions include Orange, Mudgee, Riverina, Canberra District and Cowra.