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Marcello Fabretti
 
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in article , gerald at
wrote on 6/7/05 3:29 AM:

> 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.

I don't know about that. I think you'll find that Busby, the guy who brought
the first cuttings over from Europe and started the Aussie wine industry,
got most of his cuttings in Europe and actually toured the Rhone in search
of material. It is true that he stopped in Cape Town on the way to Oz, but
so did every ship back then.

Marcello