{"id":10555,"date":"2021-07-14T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T22:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bidfood.com.au\/?p=10555"},"modified":"2021-06-15T08:52:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T22:52:49","slug":"give-em-the-old-shirazidazzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidfood.com.au\/blog\/give-em-the-old-shirazidazzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Give ’em the old shirazidazzle"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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It\u2019s the most popular wine variety in Australia with almost half a million tonnes harvested annually around the nation\u2019s wine growing regions. Shiraz can be a big, jammy, full\u00a0<\/span>bodied wine or tighter, elegant and spicy depending on where it is grown and how it is\u00a0<\/span>made. This means it\u2019s suitable for different occasions from casual meaty barbeques to\u00a0<\/span>top end restaurant meals, to special events such as weddings or openings.<\/span><\/p>

Australian shiraz vines originally came from France, where it is called Syrah. There it\u00a0is a late budding and late ripening red grape that is the foundation of famous wines\u00a0<\/span>including Hermitage and C\u00f4te R\u00f4tie. <\/span><\/p>

In 1832 James Busby, the father of the Australian wine\u00a0<\/span>industry, imported vines including Syrah from France. It was planted around Sydney and\u00a0<\/span>in the Hunter and was known as hermitage and claret but by the mid 19th century the\u00a0<\/span>name shiraz was adopted to describe the grape variety we love today.<\/span><\/p>

Shiraz is an amazing variety that produces grapes with a great diversity of flavour and\u00a0aromas depending on the climate in which they are grown. <\/span><\/p>

In warm regions such as the\u00a0<\/span>Hunter and Barossa Valleys, shiraz is known for producing wines that are big on flavour\u00a0<\/span>and alcohol, with jammy, blackberry and plum fruit characters. These bold and popular\u00a0<\/span>styles of shiraz are great to match with a big, juicy, medium-rare dry-aged steak or a\u00a0<\/span>rich and flavoursome beef or lamb stew. <\/span><\/p>

Shiraz also thrives in regions with warm summer\u00a0<\/span>days but cooler nights, such as the Adelaide Hills and Margaret River – home to wines\u00a0<\/span>like Tomich, Totino Estate and Capel Vale. Here shiraz develops more aromatic notes of\u00a0<\/span>pepper and chocolate, and elegant acidic structure superb with modern dishes such\u00a0<\/span>as kangaroo with pepper and Davidson plum, or beef brisket with spice rub. <\/span><\/p>

Cooler\u00a0<\/span>regions like Mornington Peninsula and Tasmania\u2019s Tamar Valley produce shiraz with\u00a0<\/span>aromas described as raspberry, liquorice, capsicum and white pepper, wines perfect to\u00a0<\/span>be partnered with grilled vegetable salads and Australian cheeses. <\/span><\/p>

It is this diversity of\u00a0<\/span>flavours, aromas, regions and brands that allows all Australian wine lovers to find a shiraz\u00a0<\/span>that suits not only their taste, but the food they love.<\/span><\/p>

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It\u2019s the most popular wine variety in Australia with almost half a million tonnes harvested annually around the nation\u2019s wine growing regions. Shiraz can be a big, jammy, full\u00a0bodied wine or tighter, elegant and spicy depending on where it is grown and how it is\u00a0made. This means it\u2019s suitable for different occasions from casual meaty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration-trends"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidfood.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidfood.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidfood.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidfood.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidfood.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10555"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidfood.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10898,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidfood.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10555\/revisions\/10898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidfood.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidfood.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidfood.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidfood.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}