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
Established in 2001 by Napa Valley veteran Tor Kenward and his wife Susan, TOR Kenward Family Wines represents the culmination of nearly five decades of immersion in California viticulture. Following a 27-year tenure shaping Beringer's private reserve programs, Kenward partnered with talented winemaker Jeff Ames to craft site-driven, artisanal single-vineyard expressions. The estate sources fruit exclusively from premier, sustainably farmed crus across Napa Valley and Carneros, including Beckstoffer To Kalon, Vine Hill Ranch, Dr. Crane, Hyde Vineyard, and Durell Vineyard. Winemaking is dictated by minimal intervention, featuring native-yeast primary and malolactic fermentations, parcel-specific French oak maturation, and bottling without fining or filtration. TOR's benchmark portfolio is anchored by cult Cabernet Sauvignons alongside sculpted, mineral-laced Chardonnays—notably the Durell Vineyard Cuvée Mimi, Torchiana Beresini Vineyard, and Hyde Vineyard bottlings—as well as the ultra-limited Bordeaux-blend cuvées Black Magic and Pure Magic.
🍇 Grapes
Cabernet Sauvignon
🍷 ABV
14.5-15.5%