Starvedog Lane Clare Valley Shiraz 2012 (Clare Valley, SA)

14%, Screwcap, $20

An entry level $20 Clare Shiraz from an Adelaide Hills maker.

A sadly boring wine too – there’s some chocolate eclair oak, plummy fruit and a flash of Clare mint but beyond that not much. By the second day it had started oxidising into flab.

Not quite.

Source: Sample

Tasted: August 2014

Drink: 2014-2017

Score: 15.5/20, 85/100

Would I buy it? No.