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Jazz is The Shiraz

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Why Jazz and Shiraz

To offer a richness of exploration and discovery

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I am not sure exactly when, along my personal journey, I noted the connection of Jazz musicians with Australia’s winemakers. 

I started exploring my passion for wine in the early 90’s while working in the music business for a small record label in Toronto. I got to see a lot of great gigs. But, I was profoundly drawn to jazz.

I fell in love with the Montreal Jazz Festival and religiously attended it nine years in a row. I didn’t make it to ten. Rather, I moved to Australia to investigate my passion for Australian wine.

Starting out backpacking throughout the vineyards, I never thought I would stay four years. Nor did I imagine in my wildest dreams that I would return to Canada, in September 2000, as the Director of Wine Australia.

I loved it, and lived it. I knew it then, there was something there, a kinship; the vibrant and improvisational nature of Jazz resonated with the innovative and raw energy of the growing wine industry in Australia. So after five years, I started up the Jazz Wines project.

I sought to highlight the unique contribution by Australia’s wine producers, inventing Shiraz, as a parallel to the American development of Jazz. Both aspire to something new, something fresh, always reinventing and challenging conventions.

Australia’s winemakers developed their own rules, using their own techniques and their own wine naming structure. Believing that the grape originated in Persia, Australia chose the name Shiraz – a city in present day Iran.

There are other connections between wine and jazz. Often the same words are used as descriptors – ‘sweet notes of’, ‘smooth’, ‘complex’; musicians are still described as ‘toiling in the Jazz Vineyards.’

Jazz artists have staged concerts at wineries in Napa Valley, in Australia’s Hunter and Barossa Valleys, and many more. Jazz and Shiraz – it just seems that they go together.

Let's celebrate.

By bringing attention to the legacy and traditions, Jazz Wines aims to celebrate the community including you, the wine enthusiast. We want to help you get more out of the experience, to have fun sampling and learning about the great Australian wine Shiraz alongside the great music of Jazz.

Tell us about Jazz, tell us about Shiraz, as we are here to learn and listen. We offer a richness of exploration and discovery that we want to share with you, and anyone who wants to participate. This is open to everyone.

Welcome!

Greg Homonylo