Lenswood wine sub-region

This article is about the wine region. For the town, see Lenswood, South Australia.

Lenswood sub-region
Wine region
Type	Australian Geographical Indication
Year established	1998.^[1]
Country	Australia
Part of	Adelaide Hills ^[1]
Heat units	1422^[2]
Precipitation (annual average)	1,020 millimetres (40 in)^[3]
Soil conditions	‘loamy with sub-clay soils’^[4]
Total area	66.6 square kilometres (25.7 sq mi)^[4]
Comments	2004

Lenswood wine sub-region is a wine sub-region located around the town of Lenswood in South Australia within the Mount Lofty Ranges to the east of the Adelaide city centre. The sub-region received appellation as an Australian Geographical Indication (AGI) on 16 October 1998.^[1] The sub-region is part of the Adelaide Hills wine region and the Mount Lofty Ranges zone.^[5]

Citations and references

1 2 3 "Lenswood (AGI)". Australian Grape and Wine Authority. 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
↑ Davidson,2004, page 23
↑ Davidson,2004, page 20
1 2 Davidson,2004, page 69
↑ Halliday, 2012, pages 52-53

Davidson Viticultural Consulting Services (2004), Adelaide Hills Wine Region Profile (PDF), Davidson Viticultural Consulting Services, retrieved 11 November 2014
Halliday, James (2012), James Halliday Australian wine companion : the bestselling and definitive guide to Australian wine (2013 ed.), Richmond, Vic. Hardie Grant Books, ISBN 978-1-74270-306-0

Wine regions of South Australia

Barossa zone	Barossa Valley Eden Valley High Eden

Fleurieu zone	Currency Creek Kangaroo Island Langhorne Creek McLaren Vale Southern Fleurieu

Mount Lofty Ranges zone	Adelaide Hills Lenswood Piccadilly Valley Adelaide Plains Clare Valley

Far North zone	Southern Flinders Ranges

Limestone Coast zone	Mount Benson Mount Gambier Padthaway Coonawarra Robe Wrattonbully

Lower Murray zone	Riverland

The Peninsulas zone	The Peninsulas

Other	South Eastern Australia

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