James Busby

So this was a strong theory that was buzzing around.

At the time, that our wine nerd hero, James Busby, in 1831, made his European vine collection expedition.

Seurat arrived in Australia in 1832.

It did come over being named Syrah, but then also some other synonyms.

And this is, uh, it's called The Landing because this is, um, one of the first places in New Zealand where the Pacific navigators coming down from Tahiti and, and Rarotonga, where they first landed in New Zealand and then went on to become Maori, the native people of New Zealand.

So this is one of the sites of the first landing and of several centuries later, it's also the site of the first vines planted in New Zealand by a James Busby, who's, who's kind of the god-

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They survived changes in wine fashion, generations of growers, and crucially, they survived phylloxera because it never reached them.

And some of those extraordinary old vines are planted to one grape in particular, a grape that came from France, brought by our wine nerd, James Busby, and that, my friend, is Shiraz.

And that is where we're going next.

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What we really need here is a wine nerd to the rescue.

And that is exactly who shows up in the form of James Busby.

James Busby.

And I'm going to officially call him Australia's first wine nerd.

Very interesting story for this guy because he's originally born in Edinburgh, Scotland.