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Wine in history: Shiraz, Syrah, and Shirazi
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Wine in history: Shiraz, Syrah, and Shirazi
Stuart Walton traces the myths of Shiraz—and reflects on the glorious past and sad recent history of Shirazi wine. It was established beyond doubt in 1998 that the Syrah wine grape, known as Shiraz throughout much of the Anglophone world, has no genetic connection to the ancient Farsi provincial city of Shiraz in southern Iran. Viticulture was practised in the region in antiquity, at least as far back as 2500 BCE. It is thought to have begun sy…
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