2019 Daou Vineyards Eye of the Falcon Reserve

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  5/11/2023 - juniemoon wrote:

  Yum!

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  4/20/2023 - Peaceful Cove Likes this wine: 80 Points

  Wonderful blend between the Cab and petite vetdot. Very smooth. Feeling like the petite Verdot softens the cab

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  3/24/2023 - OldHick95 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Somewhat creamy, blackberry and cherry forward with a hint of strawberry and spiciness on the finish. Grippy tannins. Needed 30 minutes of air to open. Got several more years in it.

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  12/27/2022 - JazzKat Likes this wine: 92 Points

  I had to drink this bottle early unfortunately. I was reorganizing my wine fridge and broke the top off the bottle accidentally! So straight into the decanter and then an hour or so later tried it out. 86% Cab Sauv/14% Petit Verdot. Paso Robles fruit. Drank over the course of a couple of hours. Started off as a Cab fruit bomb with some tannic and leather edge. Blueberry, cassis, and dark fruits. A touch of sweetness. Over time it settled in beautifully. Definitely a food wine

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  9/3/2022 - Hodby Likes this wine: 87 Points

  Popped and poured, through aerator, following 45 minutes aeration.Three 2 oz tasting portions sampled over a two hour period.
  
  Dark red color, quite saturated. Aroma is big on ripe fruit, and much new oak seasoning; not much breadth or complexity, certainly no bottle development or secondary complexities. It's young, superripe yey not burnt or pruny at all. It feels ready to drink and light bodied with low tannin, low acidity, which is a nice trick with what I assume is mostly Cabernet and Bordeaux varietals. Paso Robles summer heat seems nicely tamed by some carbonic maceration, gentle press work, and whole bunch fermentation. Not classically true to the varietal character to my tasta but it's an easy drinking red. Have no idea how a well stored version may last but I'd say drink now rather than store for adventure.
  
  I did not know much about the producer except that it receives ardent support from its mailing list customerrs. I think this bottling sells on release for around $60/750ml, which wouldn't tempt me; there's so much old vine zinfandel of similar character but more excitement that draws me strongly instead.

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