DAOU Cabernet Sauvignon
- Red
- United States
- Paso Robles
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Tracked vintages
- 7
- Community notes
- 357
- Merchant offers
- 171
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 93/ 1002018 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 83/ 100357 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £25per 75 cl2021 · nearest vintage with a price · 12-bottle in-bond trade, April 2025
- Drinking window
- 2022–2034peak2017 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 3,188 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Californian Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon Red.
- Body4.7 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.0 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.3 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.8 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, vanilla, chocolate, tobacco, cedar
- Black fruit · blackberry, plum, dark fruit, black cherry, black fruit
- Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, strawberry, cranberry
- Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, cocoa, graphite
- Spice · pepper, licorice, cinnamon, sage, mint
- Dried fruit · fig, raisin, prune, dried fruit, dried cranberry
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2017One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2021
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 2024unit not stated
- 202380drinkersunit not stated
- 202281drinkersunit not stated
- 202183drinkers£25 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, April 2025
- 201980drinkers
- 201893critic£33 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, July 2024
- 201792critic£19 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2020
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2018
- 93 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2017
- peak, window 2022–2034
- Lowest price
- 2017
- £19 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
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