1995 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
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Tasting Notes
The 1995 Cabernet Sauvignon is as close to a perfect wine as I could hope to taste. This opaque purple-colored wine exhibits a sensational purity of black currant fruit, intermixed with a notion of raspberries, violets, and well-disguised sweet vanillin. Full-bodied, with remarkable intensity, exquisite symmetry, and a mid-palate and finish to die for, this is a compelling, astonishingly seductive Cabernet Sauvignon that can be drunk now, or cellared for 20-25 years. I may have done this wine a disservice by not giving it the big 3-digit score.||As I have tried so hard to articulate in past reviews, what makes these wines so stunning is the black currant/cassis fruit. Screaming Eagle may be the most extravagantly pure and rich expression of cassis one can find ... short of drinking cassis liqueur. There is an unbelievable purity to these wines, as well as phenomenal concentration and richness, yet in no sense are they heavy, ponderous, or out of balance.
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Average Score
Robert Parker
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
More reviews and scores
Deep red-ruby color. Complex, fresh aromas of cassis, game and smoky, toasty oak. Sweet and silky, with beautifully integrated acidity. Dense, thick and fairly backward, with inviting flavors of roasted plum and tobacco. Very long on the palate. May eventually equal the superb '94.
About the producer
Screaming Eagle is one of the Napa Valley’s original cult Cabernets. Right from the first release, the now iconic producer garnered huge scores and a fanatic following.