1992 Screaming Eagle Cabernet First Flight of Eagles OWC - 3 x 750ml

1992, 1993 & 1994 Screaming Eagle Cabernet - First Flight of Eagles - JEAN PHILLIPS ERA! 1992, 93 & 94 vintages in a special limited release of numbered & signed OWC 3-paks! This is the rarest of the rare from Screaming Eagle! Only 120 of these RARE 3-paks were produced & signed by the winery. 

 

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.

Varietal	Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage	1992 (1) 1993 (1) 1994 (1)
Rating	99 97 & 94 RP
Bottle Size	3 x 750ml
Bottle Quantity	3
Country	USA
Region	California
Location	North Coast
Producer	Screaming Eagle
Color	Red
Wine Type	Table

Robert Parker

99 97 & 94 RP - 1992, 1993 & 1994 Screaming Eagle Cabernet - First Flight of Eagles - JEAN PHILLIPS ERA! 1992, 1993 & 1994 vintages in a special limited release of numbered & signed OWC 3-paks! This is the rarest of the rare from Screaming Eagle! Only 120 of these RARE 3-paks were produced. A Great Investment Wine! 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 wine is bottled unfined and unfiltered and aged in 60% new oak. It is only sold via a mailing list so readers who want to taste one of the most exciting young wines being produced should get on the list. The 175 cases of the 1992 are followed by only 130 cases of the 1993 and a tiny quantity of 1994 as the last two vintages were even smaller in crop size. At present the 1992 can be bought at the following Napa Valley locations: the restaurants Don Giovanni and Brava and at the St. Helena Wine Center and Oakville Grocery. Don't dilly-dally around on this one. RP

Wine Spectator

Burghound

Varietal	Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage	1992
Rating	NR
Barrels	French Oak
Style	Cabernet
Owners	Jean Phillips
Region	California
Location	North Coast
Producer	Screaming Eagle
Winemaker	Heidi Barrett
Production	120 three-paks were produced (signed & numbered)