B.R. Cohn Olive Hill Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2004

Professional Ratings

• 93 Wine Enthusiast
  This bottling has got to be one of the most seriously underpriced Cabs in California. What you get is a firmly structured, tannic, complex 100% Cabernet, rich in currants and oak, that can proudly stand on the best table. Will take some age, too.
• 90 Connoisseurs' Guide

  This wine was first reviewed by CGCW some ten years ago, and our impressions then were that it might not be the first choice to lay away in the cellar as it had begun to show some rounding at the edges and early accessibility—the very things that worried most of us about the increasing ripeness trend in California wine. But, now that it has seen a decade of quiet in an appropriately cool and dark place, it has emerged as still nicely intact and ready for drinking. It has a bit of tannin left, but the cedary/cigar box notes in its makeup and the openness of its nature suggests that one need not wait any longer. Still, the wine is fifteen years old and not in the least decrepit—and key among its assets is its underlying balance that has kept it in such fine fettle across the years. $100 and 89 points initially.