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The February 2023 Auction: Part 1

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Auction Ends: 2/2/2023 6:00:00 PM PDT

Lot #709. Screaming Eagle Sauvignon Blanc 2017

Description: Consists of 3 Bottles, 0.75L
Packaging: OWC.
Score: 98 WA.
"The 2017 Sauvignon Blanc is 100% Sauvignon Blanc, coming from a small section of estate vines closer to the Napa river. It is entirely fermented in French oak, but only about 5% is new. The grapes are pressed straight to barrels and kept on their gross lees. The wine is fermented using native yeasts. This vintage, the nose is not at all shy—it comes bounding out of the glass with exuberant scents of ripe peaches, passion fruit and musk perfume plus wafts of honeycomb, elderflower, ripe gooseberries and lemongrass with a waft of Bosc pears. The palate is super intense and yet ethereally weighted, light-bodied and oh-so-fine, elegant and refreshing, featuring a whole array of chalk and sea spray sparks, creating a shimmer to all the many citrus and stone fruit layers, finishing with great length and energy. There is a truly interesting phenolic texture to the palate that reminds me of some Chardonnays, particularly Burgundian examples. Winemaker Nick Gislason commented that the gross lees contain a lot of phenolic content, which is where the wine picks up that textural component. Love it! "In the end, we made a little 2017 red," winemaker Nick Gislason told me. "It amounted to only four barrels of the Cabernet and 10 barrels of The Flight, which was all we had picked before the fires." Of course, the 2017 Sauvignon Blanc was harvested well before the fires and even before the Labor Day heat wave. This is Screaming Eagle's best Sauvignon Blanc so far, truly demonstrating what a great, great vintage 2017 was for white wines and how far Gislason has come along with this label." Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate #251, Oct 2020
Provenance: The Lance Cellar
Lot Location: Orange County
Estimate: $13,000

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