1974 Sterling Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve

Community Tasting Notes (38) Avg Score: 92.9 points

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  4/5/2024 - englishman's claret wrote: 94 Points

  Almost 2 years to the day since I last had the pleasure of tasting this, the '74 Sterling Reserve shows similarly. Potent, serious, dusty black cherry, a little bit of bay leaf, mint, sage, black earth, coffee, cocoa powder. Serious, brooding, deep. Still whoppingly tannic!

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  2/23/2024 - HeavyPourWine wrote: flawed

  Dinner at Ember with Brian and Rosemany Talley and friends (Arroyo Grande, CA): Bought three different '74 Napa cabs for my birthday celebration. This bottle was way past peak and undrinkable. Poured all of it out.

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  11/9/2023 - Nanda wrote: 94 Points

  Exceptional bottle, and a click-or-two better than the regular 74 Sterling Cab tasted a few days prior, though with a clear Ric Forman signature of tobacco leaf laced throughout the mature, yet fresh Cab fruit. Cruising along in a delicious late peak.

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  4/3/2022 - RockinCabs wrote: 95 Points

  Incredible youth from this 1974 Sterling. Plum, cassis, rose petal, vanilla and currant. The fruit is vibrant and plush and the texture is beautifully silky. This is cruising towards 50 with so much to give.

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  4/2/2022 - englishman's claret wrote: 94 Points

  This is shockingly young - followed for a few hours it’s not clear that this is actually fully mature. Blackberry, black trumpet, iodine profile, beef bouillon, oak. Really muscular - a big punch. As bizarre as it seems to say it about a 74… hold it longer.

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