1998 Screaming Eagle

We had an iteresting experience over the weekend.  We went to a party in San Diego for our brother-in-laws (Clint) birthday.  His brother (Justin) was the host and he asked us to pick out some nice wine to bring.  We took lots of good stuff and as most partys go, people brought some other wines to share.  Most of these wines were odd ball, lower end things and for the crowd I wouldn’t expect any high end wine.  But funny enough as I was looking through them I stumbled upon a Screaming Eagle.  I was dumbfounded and wasn’t sure what to do, (I am sure that you are saying “Drink it”) but I wasn’t even sure that it was actually Screaming Eagle.  I looked closer and sure enough it was a 1998 Screaming Eagle from Napa.  I immediatey went to find Clint.  I showed him and said that he should have is brother remove it from the general wine population so that it didn’t get drank unknowingly.  He quickly looked it up on Google to find that it is a $2200 bottle.  We were agast, Justin soon found out who brought it.  To our supprise the owner didn’t know what he had and said that he had gotten as a gift from Dr. Dre (the rapper) as a thank you for some computer work.  We all decided that he should take the bottle back which he did.  I am somewhat disappointed because I really would have liked to try it but, I am sure that my Karma has increased for doing the right thing. 

 But if any of you would like to share a 1998 Screaming Eagle, Please let me know.  ;-)

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