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2016 The Flight

Wine Details
Place of Origin

United States

Oakville

Napa

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

66% Merlot, 23% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Cabernet Franc

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Drinking Window

2024 - 2036

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Both wines from Screaming Eagle are tremendous in 2016. Winemaker Nic Gislason and his team have realized every bit of potential the vintage had to give, and I can say that having followed these wines since the fall of 2016, when they were lots of fermenting grape juice. The Merlot-based The Flight in particular is a step up from preceding vintages. As always, the attention to detail here is simply remarkable. Readers fortunate enough to own the 2016s will have a great deal of fun in the coming years comparing these two very different expressions of the same piece of dirt, one of the most hallowed in the world.