Syrah & Shiraz

A Côte-Rôtie idea rebuilt at 1,470 metres in Gualtallary, where Syrah and Viognier are picked and fermented together.

Lismore is a single estate in Greyton, high and cool, built from nothing by an American who arrived in 2003.

The Armagh is one of the small group of Australian Shiraz that sit alongside Grange in reputation, from a single vineyard planted in 1968.

Cote-Rotie is the northern Rhone's steepest and most celebrated hill, terraced so severely it must be worked by hand.

A chance to try Öküzgözü, one of Turkey's great native grapes, from a new high-altitude estate whose debut vintage won Gold at the Decant...

Andrew Murray is one of the names that put Santa Barbara Syrah on the map, and Tous les Jours is his everyday bottling: 18 months in barr...

Rhône-style blends from South Africa offer some of the best value in juicy, food-friendly reds, and Brookdale is a young estate already turning heads.

An unusual wine with a good story: old-vine Grenache picked almost overripe and made dry in an Appassimento style, from one of the Roussi...

Cornas is the northern Rhone's most uncompromising appellation — pure Syrah on granite, dark and savage in youth.

Jaboulet are one of the Rhone's historic names, and this is a single-estate Syrah in their more modern register.

Co-fermenting Syrah with a small proportion of white Viognier is a Cote-Rotie technique that lifts the aromatics.

Bordeaux varieties on the Tuscan coast, in the style that made the region's international reputation.

A Rhone blend in a maritime climate, which keeps the alcohol in check and the pepper intact.

Randall Grahm argued for decades that California should plant Rhône varieties rather than copy Bordeaux, and this single-vineyard Syrah f...

Kershaw's G.P.S.

Half Greyton, half Elgin — two of South Africa's coldest vineyard sites — and the result is a Syrah closer to the northern Rhône than to ...

Uclés is a high, chalky corner of central Spain that few outside the country can name, and 800 metres of altitude is what keeps this fresh at 14.5%.

La Sommelière is Campuget's selection off the best vines on the estate, a clear step up from the volume Costières de Nîmes bottlings.

Courbis own the southernmost slice of Saint-Joseph, right up against their Cornas holdings, and the wine tastes of it: fleshier and darke...

Saint-Joseph is where the northern Rhône becomes affordable without becoming anonymous, and Le Grand Pompée is Jaboulet's long-standing version of it.

Saint-Joseph is the northern Rhône's most approachable granite Syrah, and La Croix des Vignes comes off one terraced eight-hectare plot r...

Les Cailloux is one of the appellation's long-standing names, built from six plots across gravel, clay and limestone rather than a single site.

Parallèle 45 is the wine that introduced a lot of people to the Rhône, and under Caroline Frey it is now certified organic and biodynamic...

The estate's flagship red, from galet-strewn vineyards held to just 30 hectolitres per hectare and raised mostly in concrete so the fruit stays clear.