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Wrong answer... Wine Quiz Answer: C. Some difference: they are related..
Petit Syrah is not Syrah, but a grape with several aliases, Petit Sirah and Durif being the most common. It is related to Syrah by parentage: it is the offspring of Syrah and the obscure French grape Peloursin. This connection was uncovered in 1996 via DNA research preformed at University of California at Davis.
Contributor: Keith Wallace
Keith is the director of the Wine School of Philadelphia and a guest lecturer
for several universities, including the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel
University, and Thomas Jefferson University. He writes about wine & culture
for several Philadelphia magazines, and has been cited in many national
publications, including the Wall Street Journal.
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