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Australian wine regions
Australia is a large country - Margaret River is further from the Hunter Valley than Jerez in Spain is from Tokaji in Hungary - so, despite the distinctive national approach to wine, Australian wines are not all the same. The wines of Margaret River and of the Hunter Valley differ as much as sherry and tokay do. The three most important wine-producing states are South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. As well as bulk production, they each have specific premium wine regions.
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OXFORD COMPANION TO WINE |
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Also called regional climate, means a climate broadly representing an area or region on a scale of tens to hundreds of kilometres (Dry and Smart). Unlike the more precise terms microclimate and mesoclimate, macroclimate approximates to what is normally meant by the word `climate'. It is usually taken from a long-established recording station within the region. While easy enough to define, the concept is subject to problems in practice, however. Most climate-recording stations with long enough histories to be reliable over time are sited in towns and cities; they therefore potentially suffer from two defects. First, urban growth around them has in many cases led to a spurious warming trend in the records; mainly in the minimum temperatures, due to retention of the day's heat by roads and buildings, and in cities by industrial and domestic energy input. Secondly, the sites are likely to be disproportionately on flat land or in valleys. They therefore tend to be unrepresentative, not only of the landscape as a whole, but even more so of the better vineyard sites (see topography).
Clearly the accepted macroclimatic data have to be used with caution when applied to viticulture. Informed adjustments are nearly always needed for differences in altitude, latitude, slope, aspect, and even soil type, before worthwhile estimates can be made for the mesoclimates of actual vineyards. This is especially so in cool regions, where small differences in effective temperature can make big differences in time and completeness of ripening, and in the maturity gradings of the grape varieties that can be ripened. Bibliography - Dry, P. R., and Smart, R. E., `Vineyard site selection', in B. G. Coombe and P. R. Dry (eds.), Viticulture, i: Resources (Adelaide, 1988).
References altitude latitude mesoclimate microclimate soil topography
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