Screaming Eagle, Napa Valley, 2004

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Screaming Eagle is Napa Valley's most allocated cult Cabernet Sauvignon. The estate sits on a 57-acre hillside parcel in Oakville, founded by Jean Phillips in the 1980s, planted to Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, and Merlot. Bill Harlan's protégé Andy Erickson made the wine for over a decade; today the winemaking is led by Nick Gislason. Ownership passed to Stan Kroenke in 2006. Annual production sits below 700 cases. Allocations are released through a mailing list with a multi-year wait, and the wine consistently commands the highest secondary-market prices of any California Cabernet. The style is concentrated, dense, and unmistakably Oakville: cassis, graphite, dark chocolate, finely woven tannins built for two decades of cellaring. Show more