As described by enthusiastic English and French travellers to the region in the 17th to 19th centuries, the wine grown close to the city was of a more dilute character due to irrigation, while the best[according to whom?]
Marco Polo made mention of the wine, and other classical accounts describe vines trained by pulleys and weights to grow up one side of a house and down another.
[4] The British poet Edward FitzGerald later translated the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam from Persian language, in which praise is heaped on the Shiraz wines.
In modern Iran, Shiraz wine cannot be produced legally due to the prohibition of alcohol in Islam.
Busby travelled through Spain and France collecting vine cuttings that were the foundation of the Australian wine industry.