A well-balanced red blend crafted by our winemaking team with fruit from select California vineyards. It's a dry red wine that's smooth and fruit-forward. Pair with food or enjoy on its own.

The Sterling Vintner’s Collection Meritage is a fine blend of some of California’s 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.

Sterling Napa Valley wines show the depth, strength and expressive quality of California’s most famous wine region. Fruit for Sterling wines is grown throughout Napa Valley, from the cool southern Carneros region next to San Pablo Bay to the rugged northernmost benchlands and reaches near our Calistoga homeplace. Sterling has more than five decades of winemaking excellence in Napa Valley, and winemaker Lauren Kopit is able to build from that experience to select the finest lots to create memorable expressions for each vintage.

Sterling Napa Valley wines show the depth, strength and expressive quality of California’s most famous wine region. Fruit for Sterling wines is grown throughout Napa Valley, from the cool southern Carneros region next to San Pablo Bay to the rugged northernmost benchlands and reaches near our Calistoga homeplace. Sterling has more than five decades of winemaking excellence in Napa Valley, and winemaker Lauren Kopit is able to build from that experience to select the finest lots to create memorable expressions for each vintage.

Proof/ABV: 13.5