{"id":10907,"date":"2022-09-18T11:38:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T10:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/?p=10907"},"modified":"2022-09-22T11:44:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T10:44:49","slug":"producer-profile-daou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/producer-profile-daou\/","title":{"rendered":"Producer Profile: DAOU"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><time class=\"w-post-elm post_date entry-date published\" datetime=\"2022-09-18T11:38:41+01:00\" title=\"18 September 2022 at 11:38:41 Europe\/London\" itemprop=\"datePublished\">4 years ago<\/time><div class=\"w-separator size_medium\"><\/div><h2 class=\"w-post-elm post_title entry-title color_link_inherit\">Producer Profile: DAOU<\/h2><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p>Paso Robles is often called the \u2018Wild West\u2019 of Californian wine country. Located in the no-man\u2019s land between San Francisco and Los Angeles, this region has stronger roots in cattle farming than grape growing. Most Paso wine production today is industrial, with producers harnessing the scorching heat to make ripe, over-the-top red wines. Thankfully though, the \u2018Wild West\u2018 is also a place where daring innovators can buck these trends and find unique terroirs where a huge range of grapes can thrive. Stanley Hoffman of Hoffman Mountain Ranch (HMR) was one of Paso&#8217;s pioneers. His successors at the HMR site, the Daou brothers, carry on this pioneer spirit.<\/p>\n<p>An account of both HMR and DAOU\u2019s story has to begin in 1973, even though at the time they were quite literally a world apart.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0Paso Robles, HMR changed from Stanley\u2019s hobby to his all-out focus in \u201873. He had his sight set on making HMR a world-class wine. Stanley hired world-renowned winemaking consultant Andr\u00e9 Tchelistcheff and began work on a state-of-the-art winery.<\/p>\n<p>In Beirut, the Lebanese Civil war was just beginning in \u201873. The young Daou brothers were at home when a missile exploded right outside. The blast injured the brothers and the rest of their family.<\/p>\n<p>HMR, in the following years, produced notable wines and earned a reputation as the birthplace of modern winemaking in Paso Robles. They built the first gravity-flow winery in America and were the first commercial-scale winery in Paso Robles. The winery was eventually sold, changing hands a few times before eventually wine production stopped and the vines were ripped out. This once-prized terroir was left vacant.<\/p>\n<p>Back in Beirut, the Daou family were recovering. The family managed to leave Lebanon and emigrate to France.\u00a0The brothers spent their youth there before emigrating to the USA, both enrolling at UC San Diego and studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering. Upon graduating, they founded DAOU Systems, a networking technology company that would revolutionize hospital computer systems. During their time working on DAOU Systems, the brothers also pursued a long-standing interest \u2013 winemaking &#8211; out of their garage in rural San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>With great success, the brothers took their company public and sold their shares.\u00a0Now able to fully pursue their winemaking dream, in 2007, they bought the old HMR property, named it DAOU Vineyards and replanted vines on the calcareous clay soils.<\/p>\n<p>The DAOU site rises 2,200 feet in elevation above the Coastal Range with breathtaking views from the highest winery on the Central Coast of California. The mountain is cooled by the Pacific Ocean, fourteen miles away, and gentle breezes that flow over the Templeton Gap.<\/p>\n<p>The pinnacle of DAOU&#8217;s winemaking is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shop.oxfordwine.co.uk\/products\/daou-soul-of-a-lion-paso-robles\">Soul of a Lion<\/a>, made exclusively from free-run juice from the harvest&#8217;s best Cabernet Sauvignon. The goal is a trifecta of power, density and elegance.\u00a0The wine is aged for nearly two years in proprietary DAOU barrels, rare bois ros\u00e9 French oak barrels whose staves are seasoned in the elements for five years before coopering. The wine is held for extended bottle maturation before allocation.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shop.oxfordwine.co.uk\/products\/daou-discovery-cabernet-sauvignon-paso-robles\">Discovery Cabernet Sauvignon<\/a> is DAOU&#8217;s equivalent of a Bordeaux second wine. It delivers the intense fruit and powerful tannins you would expect from Paso Robles.\u00a0Look for aromas of cherry and blackberry jam complemented by dark chocolate, tobacco leaf and desert sage. OWC\u2019s third offering from DAOU,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shop.oxfordwine.co.uk\/products\/daou-discovery-rose-paso-robles\">Discovery Rose<\/a>, is a Provence-inspired rose made from 95% Grenache Noir and 5% Sauvignon Blanc.<\/p>\n<p>All three wines from the DAOU range are available in our shops. Swing by your local shop to have a chat about Paso Robles and pick up a bottle!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_medium\"><\/div><div class=\"w-post-elm post_author vcard author color_link_inherit with_ava avapos_top\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/author\/owcandy\/\" class=\"fn\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><div class=\"post-author-ava\" style=\"font-size:96px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Staff-photos-colour-2-96x96.png\" class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Staff-photos-colour-2-96x96.png 96w, https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Staff-photos-colour-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Staff-photos-colour-2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Staff-photos-colour-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Staff-photos-colour-2-350x350.png 350w, https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Staff-photos-colour-2-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Staff-photos-colour-2-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Staff-photos-colour-2-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Staff-photos-colour-2-48x48.png 48w, https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Staff-photos-colour-2.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/div><\/a><div class=\"post-author-meta\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/author\/owcandy\/\" class=\"post-author-name fn\">Andy Hesketh<\/a><div class=\"post-author-info\">Andy grew up in freezing cold Edmonton, Canada. He studied professional communications in university before working in hospitality and restaurant management. An avid traveller, Andy eventually landed on moving to the UK and began working as a sommelier in London. Andy is taking wine education through the Court of Master Sommeliers. In the Spring of 2022, he moved to Oxford and joined the Oxford Wine Company. Andy works between the three Oxford shops.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4 years agoProducer Profile: DAOUPaso Robles is often called the \u2018Wild West\u2019 of Californian wine country. 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