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.

See also [Inside the Soul of a Lion: Treasury’s controversial AU$1.6 Billion bet on DAOU Vineyards]

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

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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