Sterling Vintner’s Collection Meritage

Sterling Vineyards Vintner’s Collection California Meritage Red Wine Blend is a well-balanced red blend crafted by our winemaking team with fruit from select California vineyards. A dry red wine that’s smooth and fruit-forward, it offers inviting notes of raspberry, cranberry, cherry, and melted milk chocolate with flavors of mixed berry fruit, mocha, and subtle toasted spice. An excellent wine to share over dinner, pair this Meritage wine with grilled steak or roasted chicken. Sterling Vineyards was founded in 1964 by Oxford graduate and successful businessman Peter Newton. Newton was an early pioneer of crafting Bordeaux-inspired red wines in California and helped transform the Napa Valley region into the premier winemaking appellation we know today.

Blend: Merlot;Cabernet Sauvignon;Malbec;Petit Verdot

Alcohol percentage: 13.5

Tasting Notes

The Sterling Vintners Collection Meritage is a fine blend of some of Californias most intriguing red varietals including Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec and Petit Verdot, and Cabernet Franc. The wine opens with an inviting and vivid nose of freshly picked raspberries, boysenberry, black cherry and vanilla mocha. The wine is juicy on the palate where the nose rings true with flavors of mixed berryfruit, clove and toasted vanilla bean. The well-integrated oak influence offers a pleasing warm vanilla note and leads to a long-lasting, seamless finish with balanced acidity.