Sara d'Amato

Creamy cassis and sweet blackberry nose. Good concentration and intensity with tar and cedar on the palate along with...

David Lawrason

This is big, dense merlot bathed in tarry, chocolaty American oak, with very ripe currant/prune fruit and dried herbs...

Steve Thurlow

A fairly complex merlot that is well balanced but unfortunately it finishes a tad green. The nose shows raspberry...

John Szabo, MS

This is a clumsy, buttery, oaky and tarry merlot in my view, with excessive dusty, powdered tannins and charred oak...

Dan Trcka

The 2008 Sterling Vineyards Merlot is a medium bodied, FRUITY to integrated wine, with nice aromas of blackberry, black cherry, smoke and wood. It has a nice acidity, tannins that are refined to tannic (decant for 15 to 30 min) and a long finish. It will be at its best from 2013/14-2018. My impression: NICE to BEAUTIFUL, 89.5 pts. Tasted Dec/11.

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Curtis Hinds

Stored: Dec/2012. Open: 2016

Sterling Vineyards Merlot 2008