Which is the original?

[Kcwhippet]

The parent of Zinfandel is a grape called Crljenik Kasteljanski, and it comes from Croatia. It also turns out that Primitivo in Italy actually comes from cuttings Italians sent from California to Italy in the late 1800's. Syrah/Shiraz was thought to come originally from Shiraz in Iran. Shiraz is the capital of Fars province and it's in the south of the country. Current research tends to indicate the grape came from the Caucusus mountains in Armenia near the Turkish border (near the Caspian Sea) and that's much further north than the city of Shiraz, which is near the Persian Gulf.