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Shiraz
Shiraz - a noble variety producing dark, complex, long-lived wines with powerful, rich berry fruit. Until the 1970s, it was little known in Europe outside the northern Rhône, home to very fine Hermitage and Côte-Rôtie wines
More recently, thanks to a surge in popularity, it has been planted throughout the southern Rhône and southern France and is viewed as an 'improver' among the oceans of lesser-thought-of varieties such as Cinsault and Carignan. Shiraz has been Australia’s most widely planted red variety for 150 years and alongside good value everyday wines, produces some of the country’s most expensive reds including Penfold's Grange.
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