Azorah Wines is a wine/spirits company, supplying premium, Armenian wines to Australia's National, leading B2B and B2C retailers, including Dan Murphy's, Cellars Market & Kaddy. We are the first and only company based in Australia, to supply wines from this sacred, ancient region to  Australia's largest consumer base. 

Our wines are produced in Armenia, home to the world's oldest winery, Areni-1 cave complex, where the production of wine began 6200 years ago.

Countless articles written by distinguished wine makers and journalists have marked Armenia as a country that continuously produces ‘stellar wines’. Part of what distinguishes Armenian wine is its exceptional terroir, or the collection of environmental factors that influence grape growth. Some of the highest wine-growing elevations in the northern hemisphere, diverse micro-climates and rich, volcanic soils lend distinct flavors to an array of indigenous grape varietals. 

Ancient accounts have long acknowledged Armenia as the cradle of wine making. The eight-century BC Kings of Urartu, (Iron Age Kingdom- Armenian Highland) referenced their kingdom as 'land of the vineyards'. The Urartian cuneiform inscriptions, in addition, refer to what has been created and planted in the honor of the God Khaldi. Grape planting was something like a feat. Famous historians, Herodotus, Xenophon and Strabo, described the river trade on the Tigris by Armenian merchants exporting their wines downstream to the Assyrians and beyond. Xenophon, in particular, mentions that the Armenian vines were of high quality, old and of a great variety. 

Greek armies recorded being hosted with wine and beer when they were in Armenian territories. The wine-making culture passed from the Armenian Highlands to Georgia, Persia, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome. The methods and technologies of viticulture and wine-making spread from Armenia to neighboring countries thousands of years ago.  Dr. McGovern further argues that archaeological and historical evidence suggests that the earliest wine was made in the upland, northern parts of the Near East (Armenian Highlands). From there, according to the best substantiated scenario, it gradually spread to adjacent regions such as Egypt and Lower Mesopotamia (ca. 3500–3000 b.c.). Somewhat later (by 2200 b.c.), it was being enjoyed on Crete. Inexorably, the elixir of the ancient world made its way in temporal succession westward to Rome and its colonies and up the major rivers into Europe. From there, the prolific Eurasian grapevine spread to the New World, where it continues to intertwine itself with emerging economies.

It is the land of the beginning, the birthplace of vine and wine, steeped in tradition and history that dates back millennia. With a plethora of 400+ native, indigenous varieties, containing some of the world’s oldest and genetically diverse known and unknown grapes, this area can be considered the “Garden of Eden” of world wine culture.

According to Genesis, Noah, the world’s first vigneron, planted his vineyards at the foothills of biblical Mount Ararat in Armenia and later became famously drunk on his own wine!