Damn, This Was Good! #16: Meli "Dueño de la Luna" Carignan 2009

The carignan grape doesn't get much respect. The entry in the Third Edition of the formidable Oxford Companion to Wine (2006) comments that carignan "could fairly be called the bane of the European wine industry," that it is "distinguished mainly by its disadvantages" and that "some interesting old Carignan vines [may] be treasured but let it not be pla…