Screaming Eagle
The new owners of this cult winery face an interesting marketing challenge. With a $500 price tag on the 2004 release, new buyers who know only of the winery's cult status but are unfamiliar with the wine itself are likely to expect an extravagantly rich, outsized example of Napa Valley cabernet. But Screaming Eagle is not a particularly large wine; rather, it's one of a handful of Napa cabernets that has always impressed me with its complex and highly specific site character. It has always been more about elegance than sheer extraction. Following the purchase of this property in March of 2006 by money manager Charles Banks and his business partner Stanley Kroenke, the new owners tore out nearly 70% of the vineyards for replanting (there are currently just 20 acres of vines, down from 54). The aim will be a yield of two and a half to three tons per acre. "We were not getting intense enough merlot and cabernet in some years," noted Banks. The new owners also immediately installed temperature-controlled vinification tanks and air conditioning in the barrel cellar, which in past hot summers got too warm for the health of the wines. At the very high price the new owners paid for this property, expect production to go up in the future. For the time being, though, the emphasis has been on brutal selection with the objective of taking the wine to a higher quality plane: production was a low 500 cases in 2004 and just 400 in the somewhat trickier 2005 season.
From Focus on California's North Coast (May 2007) by Stephen Tanzer
2005 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
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