97 Point Rated - Tyson Stelzer
"If there is one wine this year that declares the potential and promise of the Californian venture of Penfolds, this is it. Napa Cabernet from a strong, late harvest is married with 40% new French oak in a beautifully toned and honed guise, the philosophical mirror reverse of Bin 407. Pristine blackcurrant fruit is tightly coiled in a fine shell of superb oak. Brilliantly confident yet perfectly polished tannins carry a finish of drive and determination, promising marvellous things in the decades to come. Singular evidence that the Penfolds fit in the Napa is a confident one. And for all it represents, great value, too!"

95 Point Rated - James Halliday Wine Companion
"Matured 17 months' in French oak (40% new). A fascinating wine. There's an abundance of tannins, yet they are fine and soft, something you don't often associate with the Napa. Perhaps it's the modestly elevated pH that mediates the impact and heightens the juicy fruit profile. It's ready, willing and able."

95 Point Rated - Huon Hooke The Real Review
"Very deep and bright red-purple; the bouquet is impressive in its presence, fruits in the darker spectrum with side-notes of cedar and tobacco, a plummy touch that could even be merlot (although it's pure cabernet). It's very much a Penfolds red and a very serious one at that. A keeper. Slight mid-palate dip. Good grainy tannins in harmony: a solid and quite statuesque red. Quite long in the finish. Excellent."

95 Point Rated - Campbell Mattinson The Wine Front
"Bin 704 is meant as a “mirror image” of its Australian Bin 407 stablemate. This wine is 100% Cabernet Sauvignon from the Napa Valley, matured for 17 months in all-French oak, 40% new. Penfolds is the master of the cuddly red wine but it’s never been sucked into making them too big. This is another exquisitely crafted and balanced wine, full of run, texture and flavour, pleasure-providing, sweet of fruit but not just that, herbal, smoky, a touch resiny, redcurrant in with black, tannin folded and fine, so many berries, such judicious oak, so supple. This is Australia’s Penfolds, out of the US, making a composed Claret-style, and making it work."

95 Point Rated - Tony Love Wine Pilot
"Let's get the in-house Penfolds riddle out of the way: the Bin number 704 is the reverse of it's South Australian classic Bin 407 Cabernet Sauvignon. This is all Napa Valley material crafted by Penfolds winemakers, confident and expressive from the outset, more redolent of crimson berries then darker fruits with a faboulus waft of the full spice cabinet, thanks perhaps to a judicious 17-month maturation in French oak, 40% new. There's plenty of drive in the palate, warm with ripeness, potent through deftly proportioned."

94 Point Rated - Erin Larkin Robert Parker Wine Advocate
"The fruit for the 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Bin 704 is from across Napa Valley, and the classy fruit is shaped by French oak (40% new) and firm tannins through the finish. This is supple and sweet and shows blood plum, raspberry, red licorice and even cocoa. The wine is long and lingering and shapely. Sophisticated."