The younger wine is incredibly exotic, flamboyant, and complex, its older sibling no less powerful but slightly more restrained and refined, a little less forthcoming at this point.
The vintner Jean Phillips has a permit that lets her make 8, 000 cases of wine at Screaming Eagle vineyard in California's Napa Valley, but she plans to produce nomore than 500, which almost guarantees that her cabernet will remain one of the most sought-after wines in America.