do u think SHIRAZ wine was made in shiraz(place in iran i live) in previous years(i mean before revolution)?
another clue is shiraz wine is famous in iran too and also i heard there was a huge grapeyard in shiraz before.
so……..what do u think?
and also how much is a bottle of it?:)
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Shiraz wine is another name for the syrah grape, the original name. It is documented that Shirazi wine was white, ruling out the use of dark-skinned grapes such as Syrah, and no known descriptions of this wine’s taste and character indicate any similarity whatsoever with red wines from the Rhône.
A study conducted in the Department of Viticulture and Enology at University of California, Davis used DNA typing and extensive grape reference material from the viticultural research station in Montpellier, France to conclude that Syrah was the offspring of the grape varieties Dureza (father) and Mondeuse Blanche (mother). Dureza is a dark-skinned grape variety from the Ardèche region in France while Mondeuse Blanche is a white grape variety cultivated in the Savoy region. It is unlikely that the syrah grapes originated in Persia, although there are two myths that suggest that they did - though the timeframe in which each takes place varies by abuot 1,800 years. I don’t think we will ever know the definitive answer though.
The price of shiraz varies strongly from one producer to another, from about $10 to over $70.