8/11/2021 - richardkim Likes this wine:

The palate leans toward darker flavors, with bitter cherry, smoke, tea, and black pepper. Firm tannins add to the wine's rich structure. If you're a fan of this style of Pinot Noir you'll enjoy this wine, as I did. I found it a pleasant surprise and a good value. I'll be looking for more. (I bought this wine for $19.98 at my local shop on sale; the wine-searcher price of $48.47 seems a bit high for this wine.)

8/20/2015 - richardkim wrote:

Powerfully extracted fruit with blackcurrant and blackberry. Firm tannins. Heavy application of new oak. This is a big wine with dense fruit, firm tannins and lots of oak. I'd give it a few years to integrate, but right now it's disjointed.

4/10/2015 - Dagalaifus Does not like this wine:

This wine is primarily Cabernet Sauvignon with smaller percentages of the other Bordeaux varietals. It is garnet, almost inky in the glass with a pronounced nose and overwhelming flavors of blackberries, blueberries, licorice, oak, vanilla and just a hint of smoke. It has a lengthy and very tannic finish. This wine has garnered some good to excellent scores from the established wine press and in-house critics for major wine retailers, but I think their scores and tasting notes might be predictions of what the wine will taste like in 5-10 years, rather than an accurate appraisal of what it tastes like right now. Right now, it is an over-the-top, fruit, oak and tannin bomb. Even a double decant did nothing to soften those three tasting elements. I found it almost undrinkable. But who knows, perhaps extended cellaring will produce a more integrated and drinkable wine. It's yet another example of just how subjective wine tasting can be. I note that other tasters had a polar opposite reaction to the wine, finding it "seamless," "mild," "approachable," and "integrated" -- four adjectives, which I would never include in a sentence beginning with Daou Cabernet Sauvignon 2013. On the plus side, the wine retails for around $25/ bottle. Three bottles tasted with consistent notes.

7/12/2014 - richardkim Likes this wine:

Dark, opaque and powerful. Black cherry, tar, rose petal, blackberry. The palate, though backward, is balanced, with fine tannins and acidity. Will not appeal to Nebbiolo purists, but is immensely enjoyable.

3/7/2012 - alanr wrote:

Old vine Carignane and Grenache, quite dark and brooding, black fruit, flavors just peeking out from under the crushed stones this is lathered in, reserved, dark, secretive, this needs a number of years to show what it's got. I suspect it will be quite enjoyable at some point, but right now it's hiding.