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Iran's 7,000-year-old wine culture is to be revived in France: Masrour Makaremi, an orthodontist who fled the 1979 Islamic revolution, has teamed up with winemaker Gregory Dubard to plant Shiraz vines as a tribute to his native Shiraz. Further symbolism in the project concerns the name of the wine to be released for the first time in June, "Cyrhus". It is a reference to the Persian king Cyrus the Great. There will be exactly 559 bottles of the wine produced in amphorae, corresponding to the year of Cyrus the Great's birth in 559 BC. In this "cultural exchange project", Makaremi wants to revive Iranian wine culture, which was almost extinguished by the Islamic revolution, because for him wine culture comes "from diverse cultural interactions".
(al / Source: vitisphere; Photo: Vignobles Dubard)