The 100 Pt. (TP) Patrimony by DAOU

A MARRIAGE OF PERFECTION

“Daniel Daou has been pursuing excellence on the DAOU Mountain in the Adelaida District of Paso Robles for some time now. As the Daou family will tell you it is ‘a jewel of ecological elements.’ We have been fans of the DAOU wines for years, and I had an incredible time when I took them up on their offer to visit the property for a weekend a while back. In 2013, the Daou brothers selected fruit from their oldest vines from the vineyards surrounding Daniel Daou’s home and were blown away by the results. This led to the founding of Patrimony Estate, a new cult brand that has now sits alongside top Bordeaux producers and coveted Napa bottles.

Today, I am excited about the 100 point 2018 Patrimony which we just received. This wine is on allocation and there is a wait list at the winery to buy it. In addition to the ‘most noble vineyard rows’ of the estate providing the fruit, Patrimony wines are carefully aged for 30 months in rare French oak barrels prized for their fine grain and distinctive elegance. Jeb Dunnuck calls this cab ‘another magical wine from this estate.’ This is a wine that belongs in any Bordeaux lover’s collection. Limited availability, so act fast! ” – Glen Knight, The Wine House

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100 Points: “With a prolonged hang time—and the latest harvest to date on Daou Mountain—this 100% Cabernet Sauvignon is not only concentrated, but silky and ultra-generous in fruit and aromatics. The dazzling texture of Devil’s Food Cake, boysenberry preserves, offers a most sensual mouthfeel that is more of a caress than a grip. The wine’s inherent calcareous nature weaves its chalky minerality through a field of violets and sweet tobacco. Aged 30 months in an assortment of high-end French oak barrels, with extra tight grain and a medium-long toast.” – Meredith May, Tasting Panel (January 2021)

98+ Points: “The 2018 Patrimony is an extraordinarily long, layered and pure Cabernet Sauvignon. Made entirely from free-run juice and aged 30 months in new French oak barrels, it offers stunning aromatics: blueberry and blackberry preserves are accented by garrigue, wildflowers and meaty tones, with pure wafts of mint chocolate. The palate has a bursting sensation from its fresh acidity and chocolaty tannins, driving you to take another sip. It's everything it promised from barrel, and it can be expected to gain complexity in bottle over the next 20+ years. Drink dates 2022 – 2042.” – Erin Brooks, Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate (March 2022)

98+ Points: “The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon is another magical wine from this estate. Deep purple-hued, with full-bodied aromas and flavors of crème de cassis, toasted spices, tobacco, mint, and cedar pencil, it's just a quintessential Cabernet Sauvignon offering remarkable purity, building, ultra-fine tannins, and a great finish. Showing the pure, elegant, structured style of this vintage beautifully, it has the structure to benefit from 2-4 years of bottle age and will have 20+ years of prime drinking. Maturity 2023 – 2043.” – Jeb Dunnuck (September 2021)

FROM THE WINERY

Tasting Notes: This wine definitely qualifies as the most elegant PATRIMONY Cabernet to date. The longer hanging on the vine provides a great tannin structure while maintaining Freshness. The nose is layered and complex, exploding with chocolate, cooked blackberries, violets, cedar and cigar box. On the palate, crushed stones give it a dimension rarely seen in a new world wine. The fruit is pure and potent yet very fine while being accompanied with a kaleidoscope of flavor ranging from blueberries, blackberries, dulce de leche and a touch of rose petal while having a very mineral and floral note. This wine will show its potential after it ages in the bottle for several years. With an immense structure, this will age and improve for decades.

In the Santa Lucia Mountains west of Paso Robles is a gem cut from the rough of the coastal forest, ascending into the skyline with pyramidal grace. This is DAOU Mountain, in the Adelaida District.

Patrimony is rooted in the mountain's unmatched alchemy of soil, aspect and climate, and realized through meticulous vinification of our most noble vineyard rows. The phenolics produced here are known to be among the highest in the world, fostering an immensity of color, depth and structure that is only enhanced by the rigorous viticulture required to make Patrimony.

Patrimony fruit undergoes state-of-the-art optical sorting to ensure absolute flavor integrity. Fermentation proceeds exclusively with wild yeasts cultured from DAOU Mountain, imbuing the wine with native texture and character. The wine is made entirely from free-run juice. Maturation unfolds for 30 months in rare French oak barrels prized for their fine grain and distinctive elegance. Only after further aging in the bottle for one year do all of these aspects coalesce into complete symmetry

BARRIQUES

The Patrimony aging program is built around the most coveted French oak barrels that are accessible only through personal relationships with top cooperages.

These barrels are: (1) Taransaud T5 barrels coopered from five-year seasoned staves cut from centuries-old Tronçais forest trees; (2) limited Tonnellerie Sylvain barrels made from 362-year-old fine-grain oak, originating from a forestry program initiated during the reign of Louis XIV; only 35 of these barrels were produced from two fallen oaks in the Futaie des Clos plot of the Bercé royal forest; and (3) a proprietary DAOU barrel created from rare, super fine-grain pink oak, or , that is also seasoned in the elements for five years. This proprietary barrel is custom toasted with a low flame to avoid char and ultimately accentuate the wine with extraordinary length.

Collectively, these barrels provide for absolute oak integration and staggering complexity over a maturation period of 30 months, all without encroaching upon the pure qualities of our DAOU Mountain fruit.

UPDATED CURBSIDE PICKUP INSTRUCTIONS (AUGUST 2021):

1. Place your online order, select “curbside pickup” and the date you wish to pick up your order. You will receive several emails. The first will acknowledge receipt of your order, another will let you know that your order is ready for curbside pickup.

2. When your order is ready for curbside pickup, it will be at the front of the store. IMPORTANT! Due to space constraints, orders will only be held in the front of the store for curbside pickup for 3 days. After 3 days, they will be moved back to Will Call by the Customer Service Desk inside the store.

3. When picking up, pull up in front of the store. There is no need to call when you arrive at the store – just roll down your passenger window and let us know the name on the order. We will put your order in your vehicle. There is no need to step out of your vehicle.