Community Tasting Notes 22

• La Cave d'Argent wrote: 89 points

  April 16, 2024 - This deep-to-opaque crimson wine is a blend of 77.5% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15.6% Petit Verdot, 6.5% Merlot and 0.4% Cabernet Franc, aged for eight months in French oak (50% new). Serially tasted over a three-hour period from a bottle that had been popped and poured, it fully opens after the first hour to reveal aromas and flavors of chocolate-covered cherries, mulberries, Asian spices and pipe tobacco. Medium-to-full-bodied, low-to-medium in acidity, seamlessly alcoholic (14.5%) and with fairly well-integrated oak at such an early stage, it wraps its flavors with plentiful sweet tannins, stays solid in the middle and finishes with medium length. This is a very credible "workhorse" Cab from a winery that offers several other bottlings that sell at a significant premium. Drink now-2032.

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• marcellevi Likes this wine: 89 points

  April 16, 2024 - It doesn’t taste like a Napa Valley Cab, so it must be crap, right?

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• Alaskawino wrote:

  April 14, 2024 - Not ready

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• Roman Empire wrote: 83 points

  April 12, 2024 - Tasting Note 15 of #50in2024
  
  First time I ever tasted Daou Cab Sav from Paso Robles.. I was disappointed.
  
  I approached it open-minded - having heard of Daou before but not knowing much about its production, reputation or price.
  
  I looks like deep purple in the glass. The aromas were pretty strong ...almost perfumed (unnaturally strong?) But it still smelled good.
  
  I wasn't performing a tasting per se, so I just jumped in to have a sip in a social setting. The first thing I thought of was "sweet". The wine tasted so sweet to me. Almost all the cabs I drink are from napa and I am not deeply familiar with paso robles wines, but this was not a traditional cab taste in my opinion.
  
  I drank the glass, and it tasted like ok red wine but was too sweet for me. One glass and done. I was left like it was wine served at a wedding or a bottle from the grocery store.
  
  I had been talking with a friend who asked me what I thought it cost based on taste and I said $30 -- pretty close after we googled the cost.
  
  This is not a wine I would choose again. Its ok, and perhaps even a step up for those early in their wine journey moving on from Apothic Red.
  
  This just isn't a good expression of cab sav. at 77% cab sav and blend of others, I think it misses the mark.

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• vencebi@yahoo.com wrote: 83 points

  March 31, 2024 - Balanced, not robust, but complexed enough.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2022
• Type Red
• Producer Daou Vineyards
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Central Coast
• Appellation Paso Robles
• UPC Code 890409002398

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• In Cellars 830 (68%)
• Consumed 393 (32%)

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