2019 Screaming Eagle The Flight Estate Red Oakville 3pk 3x750ml

This is the wine Screaming Eagle makes when they want to do something different.

Same Oakville estate as the flagship Cabernet, same Nick Gislason winemaking, same David Abreu farming — but where the flagship leans Cabernet Sauvignon and brooding power,

The Flight leans Merlot and aromatic finesse. The 2019 is a 65% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Cabernet Franc Bordeaux blend, and at every step of the process it's treated with the same attention as wine that sells for three to four times the price.

The wine was originally called Second Flight — a name the estate dropped in 2015 because it implied a step-down product, which this isn't. The Flight comes from the same vineyard parcels as the flagship; it's grown on iron-rich soils within the same Oakville site that produces America's most expensive Cabernet, and it's aged in 65% new French oak barrels for nearly two years. The difference isn't quality. It's identity. Merlot leads, the wine drinks more aromatically, and the personality is unmistakably distinct from the flagship.

The 2019 vintage in Napa was defined by low yields and small berries — naturally concentrated fruit that gave winemakers extraordinary depth to work with. Antonio Galloni at Vinous called this 2019 "dark, powerful and brooding... almost shockingly so." James Suckling awarded 99 points and singled out the floral, violet-and-lavender aromatics. The drinking window stretches from 2027 well into the 2040s. This is the estate's other wine — and on many palates, on many nights, it's the one people reach for first.