Cabernet Sauvignon
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed 8 to 25 years from the vintage release.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled ribeye steak, roasted rack of lamb, braised beef short ribs
✨ Technical Specifications
TOR Kenward Family's Cabernet Sauvignon represents the culmination of Tor Kenward's decades-long relationships with Napa Valley's most legendary growers. Sourced from premier vineyard sites across Oakville, Rutherford, and Pritchard Hill—including the famed Beckstoffer To Kalon—this wine is a masterclass in Napa Valley terroir. Winemaker Jeff Ames employs a minimal-intervention approach, utilizing native yeasts and aging the wine in prime French oak barrels before bottling it unfined and unfiltered. The result is a Cabernet of immense power, complexity, and grace, capturing the opulent dark fruit, refined structure, and dusty mineral undertones that have defined Napa's golden era of winemaking.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in 2001 by Napa Valley veteran Tor Kenward and his wife Susan, TOR Wines is an artisanal producer located in St. Helena, California. Drawing upon Kenward's nearly three decades of executive experience alongside legendary growers and winemakers at Beringer Vineyards, the estate is dedicated to crafting small-production, vineyard-designated wines from premier sites throughout Napa Valley. TOR focuses primarily on historic grand cru-caliber terroirs, most notably Beckstoffer To Kalon, Beckstoffer Dr. Crane, and Cimarossa Vineyard. Employing a minimalist, site-expressive winemaking philosophy, the winery is internationally celebrated for its powerful, cellar-worthy Cabernet Sauvignons, refined Chardonnays, and rare, expressive Syrahs.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Cabernet Sauvignon
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
14.5-15.5%