95 Points | International Wine Cellar , May/June 2011

(54% cabernet sauvignon, 32% merlot, and 7% each cabernet franc and petit verdot):  Deep ruby.  Aromatic nose offers licorice, minerals, violet and mint.  Sweet and dense but airy, showing a bit more verve and lift than the Tychson Hill offering today.  But there's terrific concentration and creaminess for the vintage.  Finishes with big, broad, building tannins that seem finer-grained than those of the Tychson Hill.  The Colgin 2008s have the typical pHs found in these wines (roughly 3.85) but slightly higher total acidity than average, which helps this wine support its whopping 15.8% alcohol.

94 Points | Wine Spectator

95 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate