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Estate manager Armand de Maigret was quick to point out that Screaming Eagle's second wine, Second Flight, was a lot more than simply wine that did not make the estate's flagship bottling. On the contrary, it's purposely a merlot-based bottling, and plenty of the estate's merlot and cabernet franc doesn't even make it into this wine (it's declassified and sold off). The merlot-based Second Flight, Maigret added, tends to "fall asleep about two years after the bottling and stay asleep longer than the cabernet." So the 2008 and 2009 Second Flight are dumb today, while the 2008 Screaming Eagle is starting to wake up. But the 2010 Second Flight is still beautiful, and the 2006 is showing well, said Maigret. Recent vintages have all been serious outperformers. According to winemaker Nick Gislason, pHs are similar in 2011 and 2012. "They were like normal in 2011 due to the long hang time here," he said. He bottled the 2011 in December of 2013--four months later than usual--"because the wine's middle palate kept filling in."

From California's North Coast (May 2014) by Stephen Tanzer

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2011 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley

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