Malbec – Syrah blends are a quintessentially New World construction made from two well-traveled French grape varieties. Malbec, once at home in Bordeaux, is now most famous for its role in Argentina's wine industry, while Syrah is one of the key grape varieties of the Rhone Valley. The blend's most obvious application is to make dense, inky wines in Mendoza and, to a considerably lesser extent, in Australia and the USA.