No American wine is more highly regarded than Screaming Eagle. As California's original cult winery, it sells hyper-limited quantity wines for $3,000+ per bottle. Screaming Eagle took flight in 1992 when wine critic Robert Parker gave the first vintage a 99. He would later give the Bordeaux-style red blend six perfect ratings. In 2000, a bottle from the debut vintage sold for $500,000, setting the record for the most expensive wine.

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What’s the longest you’d wait in line for something? (I personally waited four hours for Franklin Barbecue once.) If you answered more than a decade, you might just have the grit and tenacity to become a member of Screaming Eagle. The hallowed Oakville estate has a 12-year waitlist, with outstanding vintages like 2008 only adding more potential patrons to the line. 

Fortunately, our Napa collection lets you invest in 2008 Screaming Eagle in 12 seconds rather than 12 years. The expressive Bordeaux-style red blend bursts forth with crystal clear purity and unbridled intensity, drawing comparisons to Château Margaux from critics. Layers of blackberries, black cherries, graphite, licorice, violets, and espresso layer upon each other to form a well-structured body. Anyone fortunate enough to have this gem is sure to be the envy of other wine investors. 

The Final Sip: Say no to waitlists. Say yes to the granddaddy of all cult wines.

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The story of Screaming Eagle is impossible to tell without Robert Parker. The supremely influential critic had the power to make or break wineries with a single review. So, when Parker awarded a 99-point rating to this relatively unknown Oakville winery in 1995, it changed everything. Overnight, Screaming Eagle gained cult status and renown as a Napa first growth among critics and connoisseurs. 

The 2004 Screaming Eagle pays homage to the great Paulliac estates of Château Pontet-Canet and Château Mouton Rothschild. It’s perfumed. It’s bold. It’s multi-dimensional with a flavor profile that evolves by the minute. Like its predecessors, 2004 Screaming Eagle offers a profound drinking experience that defies easy categorization. Parker, who has awarded Screaming Eagle seven perfect scores since its debut, said of the 2004 vintage, “this is undeniably a great wine that competes on the world stage with the best that exist.”

The Final Sip: If the greatest wine critic of all time sings the praises of 2004 Screaming Eagle, who are we to argue?

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If you were to create the perfect investment-grade wine, it would look something like 2015 Screaming Eagle. The wine is universally beloved. Production never exceeds 850 cases per year. And, the demand is only rivaled by Maverick’s need for speed in Top Gun. As a result, six magnum bottles of Screaming Eagle sold for $500,000 in 2016, a record at the time. 

The banner growing season in Napa for Bordeaux varietals brought out the best in this 98% cabernet sauvignon and 2% cabernet franc blend. After a 21 month slumber in new French oak, the Paulliac-styled wine exudes an intoxicating mixture of black currants, black cherries, cassis, smoke, licorice, and earthiness. Wine critic Robert Parker awarded the vintage a 98-point rating, saying, “the 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon, which I loved last year, has gotten even better.”  

The Final Sip: Trophy wines don’t get bigger, rarer, or more coveted than Screaming Eagle.

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Fine wine does not get rarer or more desirable than this. Screaming Eagle is the ultimate cult cab, with its mind-blowing finesse and unrivaled class. While the Judgment of Paris elevated California wine to the global consciousness, it was Screaming Eagle that took the region’s reputation to stratospheric heights in the mid-90s. It’s why an imperial bottle of the debut vintage sold for a world record $500,000 at auction in 2000.
 
The 2019 Screaming Eagle marks another epic chapter in this wine’s already storied history. Wine critic Antonio Galloni praised it as “simply magnificent from the very first taste,” noting a panoply of red and purple fruits, wildflowers, orange zest, leather, tobacco, and graphite. Meanwhile, Jeb Dunnuck compared the grand vin to the 2016 vintage, which earned multiple perfect scores from critics. Anyone with the good fortune to encounter this wine shouldn’t hesitate to invest.
 
The Final Sip: Screaming Eagle is the archetypal California cult cab and the 2019 vintage reminds investors why.

Screaming Eagle is one of Napa Valley's smallest wineries. The little stone winery is perched on a rocky hillside in the Oakville Appellation overlooking the vineyard planted in Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc. The wine is aged in 65% new French oak barrels for almost two years. Annual production is approximately 500 cases with most wine sold directly to consumers via a mailing list. The winery's first release was approximately 200 cases of the 1992 vintage.

Screaming Eagle The Flight may be the estate’s second wine, but what a second wine it is. The Bordeaux-style red blend features expressive dark fruit mixed with violets, spice cakes, and a touch of menthol flavor. Wine critic James Suckling gave it back-to-back 99-point ratings in 2016 and 2017, saying, "best Flight I have ever had with so much merlot character coming through… extremely refined and fresh.” As for investors, they routinely pay hundreds of dollars for a single bottle of this red wine.

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Lots of crushed berries, such as raspberries and blackberries, with spearmint and crushed stone, as well as redcurrants. Full-bodied with regal tannins that build on the palate as you taste it and flow over like a gentle waterfall. Such a beautiful, subtle and graceful texture. Best after 2027.

James Suckling

The Grand Vin 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon is reminiscent of the 2016, and possibly the 2014, with its beautiful balance, purity, and straight-up class. Offering remarkable purity in its crème de cassis, wildflower, spice, lead pencil, and tobacco-like aromas and flavors, it’s medium to full-bodied, has flawless balance, and building, silky tannins. It’s a thrillingly complete, classic Screaming Eagle that won’t hit maturity for another 7-8 years and I suspect will have 40 to 50 years of overall longevity.

Jeb Dunnuck

2019 screaming eagle, cabernet sauvignon, oakville (750ml)

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