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Swartland

Appellation

Swartland is a Wine of Origin district of Coastal Region in South Africa.

Rolling wheat and vine country north of Cape Town, dry-farmed bush vines on shale and granite. Since the 2000s a centre of old-vine Chenin Blanc and Rhône-style blends.
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Key facts

Type
Wine of Origin district
Within
Coastal Region
Area
370,793 ha registered outline
Centre
33.2940° S, 18.5992° E
Legal basis
Wine of Origin Scheme (Liquor Products Act 60 of 1989); areas published in the Government Gazette and administered by SAWIS.

Outline: Built from the administrative units that contain the area. The legal boundary follows other lines (roads, rivers, farms or altitude), so the real area is smaller.

Where it is

Nearest town
17 km south-west of Moorreesburg
Nearest city
22 km north of Malmesbury 43,009 people
To the sea
34 km
Same latitude
Valle de Casablanca (Chile), Orange (Australia), Agrelo (Argentina), Litoral Sur (Uruguay)

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation
0–908 m
Mean elevation
129 m

Measured over the whole outline on 57,526 elevation cells of about 256 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Inside Swartland · 2

Wineries · 3

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Sources

geoBoundaries ZAF ADM3 (2020) (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO))

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