75 cl, 13% Alc.

Screaming Eagle 1992

1992
  • 75 cl, 13% Alc.
  • Aging potential: It is great to enjoy now but has further potential
  • Red

Starting price

£ 15,800
Oakville, California, USA
The legendary first vintage. The opulent wine. Impressively structured, possessing all latent tension It shows not only elegance, multifaceted layers, extraordinary notes of aging but also a power of owning this wine.
Aging potential: It is great to enjoy now but has further potential
  • 75 cl, 13% Alc.
  • Aging potential: It is great to enjoy now but has further potential
  • Red
RP 99/100
WS 96/100
Robert Parker
This small operation is located just below the Dalla Valle vineyard near the Oakville Cross. Screaming Eagle's Cabernet Sauvignons are going to create quite a stir among lovers of that varietal - if they are able to latch onto a bottle or two. The estate is owned by Tony Bowden and Jean Phillips, one of Napa Valley's leading real estate agents. With the help of Heidi Barrett and Gustav Dalla Valle, this operation's debut vintage is the extraordinary 1992 Cabernet Sauvignon, one of the greatest young Cabernets I have ever tasted. The 1992 Screaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon is exceptionally impressive. The wine's opaque purple color is followed by a sensational nose of jammy blackcurrants and subtle toasty oak. As stunning as the aromatics are, the wine reveals even greater richness and intensity on the palate, offering up layers of stunningly proportioned, ripe, intense fruit, full body, great purity, and an inner-core of sweet, creamy, highly extracted blackcurrant/cassis fruit. The tannin is nearly concealed behind the massive extract and richness. All the component parts are brilliantly focused and in balance. The finish is awesome! This is a spectacular debut release that should age effortlessly for 20 years.
Wine Spectator
At this stage, the wine of the vintage, with an amazingly dark, rich, plush core of currant, spice, black cherry and blackberry. Deliciously elegant, with supple, subtle flavor nuances and extra flavor dimensions. Shows no sign of fatigue; the debut vintage was no fluke.

Screaming Eagle Winery

History

Screaming Eagle is a phenomenon of Californian wines. By revealing of the best terroir Jean Philips started acquiring of plots at the end of 80th selling grapes to neighboring wineries. It’s hard to imagine the first released vintage 1992 became a legend and quickly gained popularity. Robert Parker had not a small part in the rising and stumbled across the star. The unique microclimate of vineyards gives depth and tremendous potential to Cabernet Sauvignon. Screaming Eagle was sold to Charles Banks and Stan Kroenke at 2006 for a sum which seeks to 30 million dollars (Nobody breaks a final one). New proprietors continue tradition to produce the best wines introducing their view.

Technology

Screaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard has ideal situation to reach the optimal ripening. Farming decisions used at the vineyard are shrouded in secrecy giving to public just general facts. Nick Gislason, current winemaker of Screaming Eagle, works expressing the full energy of obtained high quality grape. The wine was aged in 60% of new oak without filtering and fining.

Oakville

If you would like to find one of the most exceptional Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon without a doubt you would do it in Oakville AVA. It is situated in the middle of Napa Valley with Mediterranean climate and varied gravel soil. Representing 75% all vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon is a undiscussed king of Oakville, Merlot and others Bordeaux blend grapes are coming after.

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