Daou Dessert Red 2019

Written By Campbell Mattinson
A bottle of daou vintage port 2019 on a white background.

Daou Dessert Red 2019
21% alcohol, cork, Paso Robles/Adelaida/California.

I only had a brief taste of this but there don’t seem to be too many references to it out there so I made a quick note. It’s made mostly with cabernet and, according to the Daou representative that I was sitting next to at dinner at the winery, “It’s a sweet wine for people who don't usually like sweet wine". It tastes of chocolate cake and woodsmoke, blackberry and a freshening hit of boysenberry. It’s sweet but it has a dry, structural backbone, so characteristic of cabernet-based wines. It’s pretty delicious, all told.

  • Apologies for the bottle images. It’s the only one I could find, and it mightn’t be quite accurate.

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