Screaming Eagle tasted

Screaming Eagle is one of those wines that everyone has heard of but few have tasted. The price ring-fences consumers, and many of those who have managed to get on the allocation list seem tempted to sell rather than open their bottles, to judge from the number of listings of the wine (at £1,000 a bottle and up) on wine-searcher.com – despite the fact that total production was as little as eight or nine hundred cases of 12 bottles in the years 2006 and 2007 when the vineyard was not in full...