Two Shepherds/Two Carignans
Other than as a blending element in the Rhône Valley and Roussillon, the late-ripening carignan grape doesn't get a lot of love. In fact, in the 2006 edition of The Oxford Companion to Wine, no less an authority than Jancis Robinson calls carignan "the bane of the European wine industry" and concludes the grape's entry in that volume by writing, "Let so…
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