On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 13:52:25 +0200, Mike Tommasi >
wrote:

>On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 07:17:21 -0400, gerald > wrote:
>
>>From where do you think the Aussies got their Shiraz plantings?
>>France? California? Long Island?
>
>Not sure what you mean.
>

What I mean is that Shiraz is the Syrah grape in South Africa. Was
brought there by the Huguenots somewhere around 1700. Was called
Shiraz then, and is now.

At a later date, the Australians got their original Syrah/Shiraz
cuttings from SA, so they named them what they were where they got
them, which was Shiraz. The OZ Syrah did not come directly from
France.

Do not know why SA called them Shiraz.