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Syrah is a varietal offspring of the Dureza and Mondeuse Blanche grapes originating in South-Eastern France. Remarkably, given the massive popularity of Syrah, its genetic forbearers are so obscure that their strain has never left a few small vineyards in Ardèche and Savoy. As for the name, it seems it is Australia that has popularised the term Shiraz, adopting it after the French put their flag in the common alternative of ‘Hermitage’ in the late 1980’s. Since then, other New World producers South Africa and Canada have also used it, whilst the rest of the world – even those dialect barbarians in America – has stayed true to the French spelling. And although the Iranian city of Shiraz was known for a wine called Shirazi (now defunct due to Islamic law), it is believed that wine was white and there is no genetic link between the name and the grape.
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