When uncorking this powerful red wine a connoisseur enjoys the rich deep taste of a black fruit. The color of this fruit is the darkest among wine grapes in that it resembles black. The ancestry of this fruit comes from two little know vines of the dureza and mondeuse blanche from the southeastern part of France.

There are many different names this fruit is called including sirac, shiraz, syrac and serine to name a few.  There are also several legends about its true origin. Many of them have the wine originating in the Iranian town of Shiraz and then brought to the Rhone region of France, just when is debated.