Massive Score from Jeb for Paso Cab

[jcoley3]

@Andrew Kaufman

@mattbillet

L’Adventure’s wines are more comparable to the Daou Mayote, in the sense that syrah is in the blend. I believe there is a huge difference between the Reserve Cab and the Soul of a Lion, although they are both great for their price points.

I also agree that Justin shouldn’t be overlooked in this thread, although his wines didn’t make their way into Jeb’s paper article. Geographically, Justin isn’t incredibly far from Daou either. I do think that these wines are somewhat different in style. I think that Justin is probably happy to have more quality cab coming out of Paso/central coast… and again… there are other good producers in the area. I just really think Daou is doing something special, and I am glad to see Jeb recognizing that fact.

Justin is long gone and living in the low desert. I doubt he cares but idid overlook his wines.

I am sure the people who own Fiji Water are excited.

[Karring_Moan]

I’m visiting DAOU in about a month. Another winemaker recommended DAOU, so I have not prior experience with them. Theif website says Soul of a Lion is out of stock. Maybe they will have a bottle at the tasting room.

k.

[Ken_Zinns]

FWIW, I visited Daou about three years ago with Eric Anderson and a group of people. Eric did a write-up for his Grape-Nutz.com website:
Visit to Daou Vineyard

Daniel Daou

[Andrew_Kaufman]

Daniel has interesting family history.

[Pat_Martin]

@A Yambor

Bill- a colleague and I were just talking about the Jeb’s scores. It seems that 96 is the new 91.

Exactly, this sums it up nicely.

[DrewMatich]

@Karr!ng M o a n

I’m visiting DAOU in about a month. Another winemaker recommended DAOU, so I have not prior experience with them. Theif website says Soul of a Lion is out of stock. Maybe they will have a bottle at the tasting room.

k.

I was just there last weekend and stayed for lunch. Service and wine were fantastic, and they brought out several not listed in the notes. They had no Soul of a Lion to pour or purchase, unfortunately.

[bretrooks]

Our Costco in San Luis Obispo had large formats of the Soul of a Lion (not sure what vintage) and the Daou estate cab around the holidays last year, and they’ve either kept trickling through or they’ve hung around for a while…there might still even be some there.

I tasted up at Daou a couple of times back in ~2010 when they were just starting to transition into using estate fruit and talked with Daniel, and he seems to be a genuinely nice guy. The wines are generally priced above what I’d be willing to pay, though.

[Andrew_Kaufman]

@bretrooks

Our Costco in San Luis Obispo had large formats of the Soul of a Lion (not sure what vintage) and the Daou estate cab around the holidays last year, and they’ve either kept trickling through or they’ve hung around for a while…there might still even be some there.

I tasted up at Daou a couple of times back in ~2010 when they were just starting to transition into using estate fruit and talked with Daniel, and he seems to be a genuinely nice guy. The wines are generally priced above what I’d be willing to pay, though.

They only released one year of Soul so far.

[bretrooks]

I guess it must have been the 2010, then.

I mentioned being unsure of the vintage since there are people on CT listing the 2012 in their cellars. Looking more closely, most of those bottles are listed as pending, and some of the others seem to be the 2010 mis-entered based on their purchase dates. Anyway…

[Leonard_Maran]

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