With a long and rich History, the Shiraz also known as the Syrah has shown to create great and fantastic wines in the right conditions. It is usually grown in warmer areas and its growth has increased greatly over the recent years in different wine producing regions of the world especially in Australia and Portugal. It has also been used as a blending grape in Spain and Italy. In France, the grape is known as Syrah and is grown throughout the Rhone Valley. The wines made from it have different flavors as a result of the location of the vines, difference in soil quality and changes in slope. [Click title for more...]

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Shiraz (also known as Syrah) is a dark-skinned grape grown all over the world and used to produce powerful and full bodied red wines (appears as a very dark red or black). Regardless of whether it is sold as Syrah or Shiraz, these wines enjoy great popularity, and is now world’s seventh most grown grape with over 142,600 hectares, or 352,000 acres. [Click title for more...]

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