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Corrina Rayment Shiraz Master

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On Jazz and the Creative Process

Music: While blending The*Shiraz, Corrina told JazzWines:

The music I like constantly changes. But I definitely like Blues and R&B. I tend to like “old school” artists like Louis Armstrong and Ray Charles, but also “new school” hip hop and rap.

Improvisation is everything in wine making. I searched for “Improvise” and found that it means a number of things including “to make, provide, or arrange from whatever materials are readily available”.

Improvisation is about experimenting with flavours and batches and making them into something new. It’s taking them in a different direction. And it is feeling what you and consumers are sayin, to try to bring that to the table.

Developing a taste or ear: It takes practice and opportunity to work with existing talents or mentors. With Corrina’s talent well recognized by her peers, she has been given opportunity to participate in the Future Leaders program for winemakers in Australia, giving her structured opportunity to meet with leading producers and learn from their experience.

Mentors: Among those who have helped her along the way, Corrina talks about learning from such notable talents as John Duvall, long-time senior winemaker for Penfolds and the man who helped put their iconic wine, The Grange, at the forefront of great wines from around the world.

Innovation and Fresh Creations

Award-winning Wine: Oliver’s Taranga including the 2002 Shiraz

Innovations: Corrina’s own Revolution, a favorite that sells-out in the U.S.A.


Definitive work: The*Shiraz: for Jazz Wines, launching in New York with limited supply of vintage 2005

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Corrina Rayment (Winemaker)

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Oliver's Taranga Vineyards

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What is the secret of making a truly great and award winning Shiraz?

Is it the instinct inspired by growing up in and among the vineyards? Is it the old vines themselves, high quality, low yield and supplier of Penfold’s iconic Grange wine? Or is it simply, as renowned viticulturalist Don Oliver once said, a “great patch of land”? 

Corrina Rayment

Whatever the secret, winemaker Corrina Rayment, Don’s niece and sixth generation of the Oliver’s Vineyard family, is making just that, excellent wine.

After leaving the family plot in McLaren Vale to pursue law, she returned instead to her own roots.

“I realized how lucky I had it back here, coming from a family business, so I went straight into winemaking when I came home,” Corrina said.

She went on to study winemaking at Adelaide University, apprenticing at Southcorp where she met mentor Peter Taylor. She won a scholarship to finish her degree in California and then she returned to Southcorp for their graduate program.

While learning what she could from the industry, Corrina convinced her grandfather and her uncles to give her some grapes from their vineyards so she could begin to make small quantities of her own wine. As demands for her wines grew so did the accolades. Most notably, she won the 2006 Trophy for Shiraz at the Australian National Wine Show and, standing out among thousands of hopefuls, was honored with the year-end cover of Wine Business Magazine.

So what is her secret? Luckily, there will be ample chance to explore and discover it. Corrina has joined us at Jazz Wines as lead winemaker, bringing her secrets, her expertise as a Shiraz master and of course her unique instincts to the definitive Jazz Wines offering, The*Shiraz.

Welcome!