Incorrect access code. Please try again.
Saving...
0%
Val d'Orcia · Tuscany · UNESCO World Heritage
A new chapter in the Daou legacy. Nineteen hectares. Five wines. One pursuit.
The River Orcia
The River Orcia borders the estate, its ancient current moderating temperature, humidity, and the mineral composition of the soils. Its presence is inseparable from the character of every wine grown beside it.
Via Francigena
The Via Francigena — the medieval pilgrimage road from Canterbury to Rome — crosses the estate. For over a thousand years, pilgrims have walked this path through Val d'Orcia, leaving behind a legacy of devotion, history, and sacred passage.
UNESCO Heritage
Val d'Orcia has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2004 — among the most celebrated landscapes on earth, where art, nature, and human cultivation have converged for centuries.
The Eighth Place
Each of us — Georges, Daniel, and Lizzy — has lived in exactly eight places. Lebanon. France. California. And now, Val d'Orcia. Tuscany is not simply our eighth address. It is the final destination. The place where all roads converge, where the restlessness of a lifetime gives way to rootedness. The number 8 is also the symbol of infinity — a loop without rupture, where every new beginning prolongs what came before. OCTA is named for this convergence. It is our most intimate wine: 100% Merlot, produced in minute quantities, intended for decades of cellaring. A wine not made for today, but for the generations that follow.
Philosophy
For Georges and Daniel Daou, wine is not simply a product of agriculture but a timeless conversation between man, nature, and history. Their belief is that great wines are not made for the fleeting approval of the present moment but are crafted to endure, to age with grace, and to reveal ever-deepening layers of beauty over time. At the heart of this philosophy is an unwavering commitment to authenticity, precision, and integrity — every choice guided by patience and respect for the land.
— Georges & Daniel Daou, Founders
The People
The Wines
Five wines, each a distinct voice of the estate's geology and philosophy. At the apex, OCTA — named for the eighth place, produced in the most limited quantities, intended for a lifetime of cellaring. Beneath it, four wines that together map the full range of Coró's terroir and ambition.
The wine of the eighth place. The most intimate expression of the estate — a wine of meditation, depth, and grandeur. Produced in minute quantities and intended for decades of cellaring. Named for the convergence of three lives, each lived across eight places, arriving here.
Drawn from clay, galestro, and travertine soils — a wine of structure, layered minerality, and phenolic depth. Bold yet refined, a sentinel of the estate.
Rebirth, renewal, elegance. Rocky upper blocks and iron-rich soils yield a wine of aromatic precision, freshness, and luminous depth.
The warmth of the Tuscan landscape in a glass. Radiant, inviting, and never ordinary — the approachable expression of Coró's character.
Freshness, grace, and profound evolution. Lime blossom deepening into honey, wax, and mineral complexity with age. A rare white designed to stand alongside the reds.
The Estate & Soil
All soils on the property are marl and limestone based — formed where an ancient sea once lay and shaped by the volcanic presence of Monte Amiata. The limestone preserves natural acidity. The diversity of minerals is written in color: red and orange signal iron; green indicates ferrous iron; purple and black reveal manganese. Each color is a mineral fingerprint; each gives nuance to the wine.
Cabernet Sauvignon grows on deep clays and on Galestro — the schist-like soil famed for aromatic complexity and drainage — and on ancient travertine at the summit where berries become small, dense, and highly concentrated. The Right Bank blend thrives on rocky upper blocks and red travertine soils rich in iron.
Lizzy Daou practices precision agriculture: every block is treated individually. Biodynamic preparations — 500P for soil health, 501 as a natural biostimulant — nurture the microbiome. Horses farm select clay blocks to prevent compaction. Everything is harvested by hand, at night, in small lots. No detail is overlooked.
Olio di Oliva
Ancient olive trees of the Coró orchard — Val d'Orcia
The estate's olive orchard is among the oldest living presences on the property — ancient trees whose roots reach as deep into this soil as the vines aspire to. When the Daou family acquired the land, the orchard came with it: a gift from the valley, and a responsibility. Rather than remove the trees, they chose to preserve and cultivate them, producing an extra virgin olive oil that is, like the wines, an expression of place before anything else.
The oil is pressed from hand-harvested olives, cold-extracted to preserve the full spectrum of aromas and polyphenols. It is bottled in a vessel designed to honor the land it comes from — dark above, stone-pale below, sealed with cork. Limited in quantity, offered only to those within the allocation circle.
By Allocation Only
The wines and olive oil of Coró are produced in extremely limited quantities and allocated to a private membership list. Collectors receive numbered bottles — a mark of their connection to the estate and its legacy. This is not merely about scarcity. It is about belonging to a story.
Request Allocation
Our private allocation is for individuals who intend to open and enjoy the bottles they receive. We look forward to welcoming you to the circle.
Thank you.
Your allocation request has been received. We will be in touch.
— The Coró team
