1992 Jean Phillips & Ren Harris Cabernet First Bottle - 750ml [Provenance Guaranteed]

This is one of the rarest birds.......so rare there is no information about it other than we know it is from Jean Phillips & Ren Harris and it was used as a business card of sorts for their real estate business and it was never sold commercially. 

Acquired from a local Napa collector who was one of the lucky recipients of a bottle. It was made by Heidi Barrett and it is blend of 50% 1992 Screaming Eagle and 50% Paradigm. Of course the infamous 1992 Screaming Eagle, the inaugural vintage, now sells for a the price of a small car and was also made by Heidi Barrett! The Provenance is perfect and the condition is impeccable, only one single bottle!

Screaming Eagle is California's original and most sought after cult wine in the world. Produced in tiny quantities from a small vineyard in Napa's Oakville appellation, the Cabernet Sauvignon-based wine regularly sells for upwards of $3000 plus a bottle and is America's most expensive regularly produced wine.

Jean Phillips established the vineyards in 1986, and set about selling fruit to local producers in Napa. After a few years, the decision was made to set up a winery, and the first vintage of Screaming Eagle was released in 1992. Robert Parker rated this first vintage at 99 points, and cult status was sealed – since then, the 1997 and 2007 vintages have achieved the coveted 100-point rating from the famous wine critic. Sales are done from the winery through a mailing list, which has been full since 2000 – and there is a waiting list several thousand names long.

Screaming Eagle's vineyard lies within the Oakville AVA in the southern part of Napa Valley. It is planted mainly to Cabernet Sauvignon with some Merlot and Cabernet Franc, and a small plot of Sauvignon Blanc. Screaming Eagle's second wine, Second Flight, is made from the vineyard's younger vines, and a white wine, the Screaming Eagle Sauvignon Blanc, was introduced in 2012. Although sold initially for $250 a bottle in 2012, this wine quickly reached astronomical prices on the secondary market as well, up to 10 times the release price.

In 2006, Screaming Eagle was famously sold to Stanley Kroenke and Charles Banks for an undisclosed sum, rumored to be upwards of $30 million. Nowadays Kroenke owns Screaming Eagle outright.