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CA wine in the UK

Daou vineyards in Paso Robles

We see too few California wines in the UK but we review some of those that made it across the Atlantic. A relative newcomer to UK shelves and lists is Daou of Paso Robles, whose extensive vineyards in the Adelaida District of Paso Robles are pictured above. See also today's Throwback Thursday from 2002.

Jancis writes The California Wine Institute is particularly keen to encourage exports at the moment. (California wines are presumably fighting for shelf space with Australian wines now that Chinese protectionist tariffs have shrunk that country's exports to what was its most important export market by...