Tor 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer ToKalon Oakville Napa 100 Points

Vinous 100 Points: “The 2019 Beckstoffer-ToKalon is outrageously beautiful.  Dark and dense to the core. The 2019 is an explosive wine endowed with remarkable depth. Creme de cassis, lavender, graphite ad inky blue fruit saturate the palate as this sumptuous, dazzling Cabernet captivates all the senses. The 2019 is a wine of tremendous energy and class. This is the first vintage in which the team felt the Pure Magic Labs worked best in the ToKalon wine.  Tasting this barrel sample, it is hard to argue with that choice. The 2019 is seriously off the charts

Robert Parker 98 Points: “For the first time, Tor’s 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer To Kalon includes a fair whack of Cabernet Franc (14%), which winemaker Jeff Ames co-fermented with a portion of the Cabernet Sauvignon. Perhaps that is the source of the wine’s delicate herbal shadings, adding complexity and freshness to the black cherry and cassis fruit. Full-bodied, rich, velvety and long, this is really super stuff, with tea-like notes emerging on the finish and lingering silky-dusty tannins.”

Winemaker Notes: “The 2019 To Kalon Cabernet is truly unlike any other To Kalon we have made in 20 years. This years wine includes the largest percentage of Cabernet Franc that we have ever had in a
To Kalon and wow what that did! This years version has all of the depth and richness that you expect from a To Kalon Cabernet but with much more refined tannins and a slight rosewater, tobacco edge that is not normally there. In addition the lift and freshness that the addition of the Franc added makes this perhaps the most food friendly To Kalon we have ever made. As great as past To Kalons have been it is very hard to single this out as the best but in a few years I would not be surprised to see it there.”