Tor Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer To Kalon Napa Valley 2012 750ml

Tor Kenward spent decades at Beringer before launching TOR, and his Beckstoffer To Kalon bottling draws on one of Oakville's most storied Cabernet vineyards. The 2012 is unusual: a blend of 52% Cabernet Sauvignon and 48% Cabernet Franc, all from To Kalon. Wine Advocate described blueberry, chocolate-covered cherry and cassis with rose hip tea, violets, pencil shavings and iron ore. James Suckling found blackberry, cherry and floral incense in a full-bodied, powerful wine with real tension, asking "Best wine ever from here?" A generous, even Napa growing season gave ripe fruit with balance. Now more than a decade old, it is entering a lovely drinking window and should hold well into the 2030s.