The Coastal Region is the historic, prestigious heart of the South African wine industry, accounting for nearly half of all the area under vine in the country. Located in the Western Cape, it forms a wide crescent around Cape Town, stretching roughly 105 kilometres from Darling in the north to Cape Point in the south, and extending inland to the Boland Mountain range.

The Cape South Coast is the dynamic, pioneering frontier of South Africa's cool-climate wine movement, encompassing a highly unique collection of maritime terroirs. Located along the rugged, wave-swept shoreline of the Western Cape, it stretches east from the Bot River and the misty valleys of Elgin, reaching down to the continent's southernmost tip at Cape Agulhas, and trailing out toward Plettenberg Bay

The Breede Valley is the sun-drenched, high-yielding heartland of South Africa’s inland wine production, defined by its expansive river basin and dramatic mountain boundaries. Located behind the imposing Huguenot tunnel and Du Toitskloof mountains, it stretches along the fertile banks of the Breede River from Worcester through to Rawsonville, serving as a historic bastion for diverse, robust styles, Chenin Blanc excellence, and pioneering brandy production.

A dry, mountain-ringed interior where the Swartberg and Langeberg trap heat in broad basins and cool sharply in elevated foothills.

A river-fed West Coast region running from hot irrigated valley floors up onto cool, Atlantic-cooled mountain plateaux.

An unusually high, cold-night district above the Witzenberg and Koue Bokkeveld, outside any of South Africa's named wine regions.

One of South Africa's newest and highest districts, a sparsely planted plateau on the Great Escarpment north of Beaufort West.

A dry Great Karoo valley north of the Swartberg, entirely dependent on mountain-fed irrigation water.