Average/Bad wines I have drunk recently - Red or White

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AnzacPaul

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Thought it might be prudent to separate the wheat from the chaff, with a dedicated "Average to bad" thread.

I had the Haselgrove Il Padrone 2020 Shiraz tonight. It had a distinct lack of fruit for such a young wine. My terminology is "dusty" which is dry without flavour. I can't see it developing into anything decent.

Would not purchase again. Just not enough life in it.
 
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I've got to say that having received my sixer of the Il Padrone yesterday and sampling a bottle you are bang on (unfortunately). I had high hopes for this one, the Haselgrove Tusail I purchased a while back from VM was really quite decent but this one is lacklustre to put it mildly. Back to VM it goes...
 
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