Mercedes Eguren 50% Shiraz 50% Tempranillo

Yum!
Rich garnet color, just short of opaque. Aromas of cherries and plums with a kiss of chocolate. Up front fruit Royal Ann cherries with a back-round of fig Shiraz at work! Tempranillo wins in the end with firm grip and dearth-thy earthy-grace.
Great with anything that flames up on the grill like LAMB!

Syah - Shiraz
Interseting facts excerpted from wikipedia:
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Syrah was estimated in 2004 to be the world's 7th most grown grape at 142,600 hectares (352,000 acres). DNA profiling in 1999 found Syrah to be the offspring of two obscure grapes from southeastern France, Dureza and Mondeuse Blanche. It should not be confused with Petite Sirah, a synonym for Durif, a cross of Syrah with Peloursin dating from 1880.

Pliny the Elder [also wrote about hops calling them "Lupus salictarius", meaning wolf among scrubs." one cool dude]
Wrote in his Naturalis Historia about the wines of Vienne (which today would be called Côte-Rôtie), where the Allobroges made famous and prized wine from a dark-skinned grape variety that had not existed some 50 years earlier, in Virgil's age. Pliny called the vines of this wine Allobrogica, and it has been speculated that it could be today's Syrah. However, the description of the wine would also fit, for example, Dureza and Pliny's observation that the vines of Allobrogica was resistant to cold is not entirely consistent with Syrah.

Scotsman James Busby, often called "the Father of Australian viticulture", made a trip back to Europe to collect cuttings from vines (primarily from France and Spain) for introduction to Australia. One of the varieties collected by him was Syrah, although Busby used the two spellings "Scyras" and "Ciras". The cuttings were planted in the Sydney Botanical Gardens, and in Hunter Valley, and in 1839 brought from Sydney to South Australia. By the 1860s, Syrah was established as an important variety in Australia.

To confuse matters, in northern Rhône, different clones of genuine Syrah are referred to as Petite Syrah (small Syrah) or Gros Syrah (large Syrah) depending on the size of their berries, with Petite Syrah being considered the superior version, giving wines higher in phenolics. [However, Petite Sirah is not Syrah. "Durif" and "Petite Sirah" are interchangeable]