93 points Wine Advocate
A brilliant effort for the vintage, this muscular, dense purple-colored, powerful, rich 2008 offers notes of graphite, truffles, black cherries and blackberries along with moderately high tannins, full-bodied richness, impressive purity and a multidimensional mouthfeel. Give it 2-3 years of cellaring and enjoy it over the next two decades. It should prove to be one of the longer lived wines of the vintage. (RP)
92 points John Gilman
The 2008 Providence is another really lovely example of the vintage, with its riper and broader-shouldered style dovetailing perfectly with the refinement of this vintage. At fourteen percent, the wine is quite ripe by 2008 standards, but offers up lovely precision in its bouquet of dark plums, woodsmoke, tobacco leaf, beautifully complex soil tones, a bit of tariness and a fine framing of toasty oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and nascently complex, with an excellent core of fruit, firm, well-integrated tannins, beautiful focus and balance and a very long, tangy and soil-driven finish. This wine is already showing a touch of Pomerol creaminess on the attack, but the finish is long and quite refined in its structural elements, promising superb evolution in bottle.
92 points Wine Enthusiast
A rounded, concentrated wine, rich and initially soft. Chocolate and ripe plum flavors give a superripe and spicy wine. As with many of the Pomerols in 2008, acidity comes riding in to redress the balance. (RV)
91 points Wine Spectator
Blackberry and currant flavors are coddled by toast and chocolate in this plush, rich red, which is generous on the palate, yet has plenty of well-integrated tannins for support. Spice, cocoa and ganache accents add interest to the long, clean finish. (TM)
90 points James Suckling
Outer quote mark This wine has some spice and berry aromas and flavors. Full and round with a slight bitterness at the end reminiscent of coffee beans and spices. Long and beautiful. So nice now but better in two or three years.