DAOU Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2020

Professional Ratings

• 94 Wine Enthusiast
  This is a widely available and reliably satisfying sip, offering dark and juicy aromas of baked berry along with toastier notes of hard spice and roasted cocoa nibs. The beefy palate is loaded with blackberry, roasted meat and rich fudge flavors, but it's the persistent acidity and tannic grip that elevates the experience.
• 93 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

  The 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve, made entirely with free-run juice, is blended with 23% Petit Verdot, 1% Merlot and 1% Cabernet Franc and was matured for 16 months in 50% new French oak. Deep ruby-purple, it offers savory aromas of black cherries, charcuterie, cedar, mushroom, tobacco, dried herbs and pencil shavings. The medium-bodied palate is chalky and fresh with savory fruits and a mineral-driven finish. Best After 2023.

• 91 Connoisseurs' Guide

  Fully ripe and generously fruited with a strong blackcurrant and black cherry presence evident at every turn and subtle hints of dark chocolate and creamy, well-integrated oak adding to its overall impression of ongoing richness, this ample young Cabernet is less overtly tannic and thus a bit easier to access than Daou’s Estate offering from the same vintage. That is not to say that it will not benefit from further age, but, here, midterm cellaring of some three to five years should find this one approaching its flavorful peak.

• 90 Decanter
  A premium Cabernet Sauvignon that drinks above its price point. Dark notes of blackberry, black plum, black pepper and black liquorice on both nose and palate. Chalky tannins, a hint of pencil shavings and minerality add interesting secondary flavours, contributing to the wines complexity. A strong and persistent finish.