DAOU Family Estates

DAOU Family Estates is Paso Robles's most critically acclaimed and most internationally recognized luxury Cabernet Sauvignon program. Georges and Daniel Daou — Lebanese-American brothers who built significant wealth in Silicon Valley's technology industry before turning their attention to wine — identified the most elevated and most calcareous-limestone-rich hilltop on Paso Robles's west side in 2007 and committed to producing Cabernet Sauvignon of the most mountain-estate-conviction and limestone-mineral-character quality available from any Paso Robles producer.

The DAOU Mountain estate — at 2,200 feet of elevation on the most dramatically elevated and most calcareous-limestone-specifically-identified hilltop in the Willow Creek District — produces Cabernet Sauvignon of extraordinary natural concentration and age-worthy structural depth from the thin, chalky, limestone-rich soils and dramatic diurnal temperature swings that no valley-floor Paso Robles growing environment replicates. The Soul of a Lion prestige blend and the DAOU Mountain estate expression represent the most ambition-mountain-limestone-specifically-identified and critically acclaimed Paso Robles luxury Cabernet Sauvignon available.

Wine Advocate has consistently scored Soul of a Lion and DAOU Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon at 93–97 points — placing DAOU among the most critically perfect and most internationally recognized California Cabernet Sauvignon programs outside Napa Valley, and establishing Paso Robles's west-side limestone elevation as capable of producing luxury Cabernet Sauvignon of genuine world-class critical quality.