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Tor Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville Hillside 2016  - First Bottle

Reviews

97 James Suckling -
Crushed dark fruit with licorice and black olives on the nose. Full-bodied and very lush yet reserved and melted in the palate. Fine tannins. Spreads out across the palate in a subtle way. Drink after 2020.
96 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate -
Drive the Oakville Cross Road to the Silverado Trail, then look directly forward and up and you see Tierra Roja, a small four-acre jewel of a hillside vineyard. The vineyard is dotted with big rocks, and the soil is roja (very red). This wine comes from the upper steep terraces of the vineyard, directly below Dalla Valle. Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville Hillside features red, black and blue fruits with floral and earthy nuances plus pencil shavings and a meaty/savory undercurrent. The palate is full-bodied, firm, grainy and lively with loads of earth and mineral layers. 447 cases produced.
96 Vinous -
Tor's 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville Hillside Tierra Roja Vineyard emerges from the upper section of the vineyard. Poorer soils on this part of the property yield small berries an wine with a distinctly darker profile vis-à-vis the straight Tierra Roja Cabernet. Inky, plush and voluptuous, with terrific energy backing up the fruit, the 2016 is positively stellar. Don't miss it.

Technical Details

  • BlendCabernet Sauvignon
  • WinemakerJeff Ames
  • CountryUS
  • RegionCalifornia North Coast
  • AppellationOakville, Napa
  • VineyardTeirra Roja
  • Alcohol14.9%

Tor Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville Hillside 2016

Cabernet Blends  |  US
JS97, IWR97, VN96, WA96

Too late, we are SOLD OUT!
FREE SHIPPING ON 3! Oakville terroir at its finest (just below Dalle Valle!) and another flat-out KILLER Cabernet from Tor Kenward and winemaker Jeff Ames. In the ‘16 vintage it is just COMPELLING stuff -- trust your wine merchant! This has all the components of every serious (and probably $200+) Oakville Cabernet you’ve tasted, and perhaps more. Amped up in every way (to 11!), impossibly plush and luxurious, voluptuous and just plain SEXY, it just exemplifies for me the brilliant ‘16 vintage in all its lush-yet-structured glory. 

This extra-small production Cab hails from the terraced, upper portion of the Tierra Roja vineyard (the “straight” Tierra Roja scored 95!), with its much-coveted dark red soil that makes Oakville wines from this particular hillside so special.Inky, bursting with fruit, earth and melted chocolate, wrapped in a flinty finish --- it is a blockbuster --- you MUST have a few.

$154.95 and FREE SHIPPING ON 3 OR MORE! Only 36 bottles in the house!

About the Producer

"Over the last four decades, I've walked almost every corner of the Napa Valley striving to understand exactly what makes a great wine. After 27 years helping Beringer build a wine company known for premium single-vineyard Cabernet Sauvignons and Chardonnays, my wife, Susan, and I founded TOR Wines in 2001. Jeff Ames made our first wines that year. The plan was simple: our wines would come from only the best blocks in great vineyard sites I knew and revered." - Tor Kenward