1985 Kenwood Cabernet Sauvignon Sonoma County - Oops! I sometimes come across wines in the cellar that are forgotten and should have been drunk up long ago, but I feel that I owe it to them to do penance and at least give them a chance to show whatever virtue they may still possess. Sometimes that assessment results in them being added to the bottle of marinating wine, but sometimes it results in pleasant surprise.
In this case it was sort of in between. The wine has lost all the sweet fruit it once had but retains some interest in the nose It had not 'gone bad' nor presented as a 'flat' wine, but had just faded to a faint replica of itself in youth. I shall be n the vigilant lookout for any similar oversights that may be lurking in the cellar. Mea culpa!