Daniel and Georges Daou today Credit: PATRICK ANG PHOTOGRAPHY Here's a parlour game for wine lovers. Imagine you want to make a world-class cabernet sauvignon. Presuming money is no object, where on the planet would you plant or buy vines? Bordeaux? You could spend a long time discussing where in Bordeaux. Napa will probably come up; maybe also Chile. It's unlikely many will think of Paso Robles in California. But that's where Daniel Daou and his brother Georges ended up founding Daou Vineyards. After an extensive eight-year search for prime cabernet sauvignon territory - which took in "Spain, Argentina, Tuscany, Napa, everywhere", in 2007 they bought a property high on a mountainside (it's at 2,200ft) and 14 miles from the cool Pacific Ocean. The plan: to make a wine that would rank alongside their favourite bordeaux, Château Léoville Las Cases.