Wine
The Buzziest California Wine Region Isn’t Napa or Sonoma
With interesting products and a world-class terroir, Paso Robles is the state’s new winemaking hot spot.
If you’re on an all-out quest to make great cabernet, you might aim for Napa or Bordeaux.
Not Daniel Daou. After a decade-long global search for the right plot of land to start growing the grape, he found the ideal combo of soil and climate for his dream in Paso Robles, a land of oak-studded hills and winding back roads, a three-hour drive south of San Francisco. “Paso,” he says, “has a climate between Pauillac in Bordeaux and Oakville in Napa. It was my destiny.”