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2020 Daou Mayote

JS 95

WA 93

JD 93+ -95+

JR 16.5+

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RATINGS

95James Suckling

Very attractive dark berry character with fine chocolate and pencil shavings with hints of licorice and anisette...plush and mouth-filling with a full body and broad, lightly chewy tannin structure. Precise and dynamic with a long finish.

93The Wine Advocate

...opens with notes of tar, leather...core of cassis and touches of roasted peppers and cigar box. The full-bodied palate has refreshing acidity, a gently rustic frame, a deep core of fruit and a long, tarry finish.

93+ -95+ Jeb Dunnuck

...offers lots of pure blue fruits and minerality as well as a medium to full-bodied style on the palate...elegant and streamlined...shines for its incredibly purity and elegance, while still bringing serious Paso fruit and texture.

16.5+ Jancis Robinson

Freeze-dried raspberry and black cherry on the nose. Vanilla powder and a bit of gravel dust. Heavily structured – chewy grippy tannin and high extract. Bone dry. Lingering black-plum skin on the finish.

PRODUCER

Daou

Daou is owned and operated by the brothers Georges and Daniel Daou. The men are engineers who had founded technology companies before starting a winery focused on producing Bordeaux-style wines. Natives of Lebanon, the Daou family fled the war-torn country when the brothers were young, settling for a while in the south of France, where the brothers first became interested in winemaking. Their Paso Robles estate produces red and white wines. The wines earn ratings in the mid- to high 90s. Wine Advocate has written that “along with l'Aventure and Booker, (the Daou brothers) make the finest Bordeaux blends from Paso Robles...”

REGION

United States, California, Central Coast, Paso Robles

Paso Robles AVA is midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, and it is considered one of the West Coast’s most exciting winemaking regions. With its hot, sometimes searingly dry and sunny weather, it is especially good country for growing warm climate grapes such as Syrah, Grenache and Mourvedre. Because many Paso Robles wineries have been successful with blending these grapes into Rhone Valley-style wines, it is known as the Rhone zone of California. The AVA was created in 1983 and there are 32,000 vineyard acres. In late 2014 the AVA was divided into 11 smaller sub-appellations, so starting with 2015 vintages labeling will become more specific on Paso Robles wines, which will now also list sub-appellations. Located in San Luis Obispo County, Paso Robles, the town and its surrounding area, was traditionally a farming and ranching region. But from a few dozen wineries in the early 1990s to more than 200 today, the area is quickly becoming known for wine and risk-taking winemakers.