2001 Kenwood Cabernet Sauvignon Artist's Series

A dark, potent wine, the 2001 Kenwood Cabernet Sauvignon Artist Series is packed with black fruit, gravel, incense, lavender, black olive, sage and tobacco. It’s a wine made in the style of the time, which is to say, with quite a bit of extraction and oak impact. Even so, the 2001 has aged impeccably, far better than many of the 2001 Napa Valley Cabernets I tasted in 2021 for a 20-year report on that vintage. Moreover, the 2001 Artist Series has none of the Brett issues that afflict so many other wines from Napa in that era. It’s an absolute treat to drink this from an impeccably sourced bottle.