1999 Screaming Eagle Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

1999 Screaming Eagle Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon SKU #1001172

Price: $3,499.95

RP 97

WS 97

ST 93

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Professional Reviews

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
97
The bottled 1999 (a blend of 88% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Merlot, and 2% Cabernet Franc) is as profound as I predicted a year and a half ago. It boasts an opaque purple color along with a gorgeously pure nose of creme de cassis, charcoal, and floral characteristics. The wine is opulent, dense, and rich, with exceptional purity, a viscous texture, and impressive underlying tannin that frames its large but elegant personality. Not surprisingly, this is a candidate for the wine of the vintage. Anticipated maturity: 2005-2020. (RP)

(08/2002)
Wine Spectator
97
A brilliant effort. Deliciously rich and complex, with gobs of concentrated black cherry, blackberry, plum and currant flavors focused in on a tight beam. Intense and concentrated, it exhibits a supple, polished texture, gaining complexity and nuance on a long, detailed finish. *Collectibles* (JL)

(11/2002)
Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar
93
Bright, saturated medium ruby. Very ripe, sweet, aromatic nose combines bitter cherry, currant, chocolate, espresso, baking spices and licorice. Expansive, sweet and mouthfilling; almost shockingly large-scaled for this wine. Velvety and seamless, with ripe acids giving the wine shape. Subtle notes of currant leaf, maple syrup and game. Finishes rich and long, with sweet tannins. Seems riper and more textured than recent vintages of this wine. (ST)

(12/2002)

K&L Notes

Wine Advocate's Neal Martin is 95 points on the '99: "My first ever 'Screagle'…and I like it. The nose is alluring, far more floral than the Harlan, far more generous with layers of sweet cassis-driven fruit, blueberries, fresh figs, blood oranges and mango sorbet. Maybe it is not my style of wine, but it has a purity a voluptuous that I get with Sine Qua Non, a voluptuous that is measured. The palate is full-bodied, very focused, perhaps more linear than I was expecting and very well balanced. Overblown? Not in the slightest, with good acidity, quite caressing on the glossy finish that is just a little too sweet for my liking, touches of fresh prune and fig on the back palate. Still, the bottom line is that this is a lovely caressing, beautifully crafted wine…put me down for a few cases. Drink 2011-2025+ Tasted December 2008." (Wine Journal, 5/2009)

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