Musicians, writers, actors, and thinkers rolled in and out of our home in my youth.” “ Bottle Shock did bring a lot of people into the narrative.” Mom an actress of the stage – not movies – and an excellent painter. “Bohemians. Dad a writer with a play that went to Broadway and a Hollywood movie. There’s now talk of a TV miniseries about his career – Kenward is understandable coy about who will be cast to play him.īut he’s happy to answer some questions from The Buyer, starting with background on his family. He created TOR Wines with his wife Susan in 2001.
He pitched up in Napa Valley in 1975 where he spent nearly three successful decades at Beringer before deciding that he would quit the corporate world but not the wine business. Kenward is spare and wiry with an animated, purposeful demeanour. Kenward’s wines typically earn strings of superlatives from reviewers and some earn Parker ratings of 100 points. TOR Wines is one of the high-end, predominantly family-owned wine producers that sits in the Pol Roger Portfolio, hence the welcoming glass of fizz before the main event. We are at the Quo Vadis restaurant in Soho to meet Napa Valley industry icon Tor Kenward, savour a few of his wines and hear about his new memoir, Reflections of a Vintner. It’s rare that one wants to hurry down a glass of Pol Roger NV Champagne but today it seems a distraction. That makes us human.” “We were all dreamers and cowboys, swinging for the fences – fearless.” Photo © TOR Instagram/ Mark Hartman Nor can a golf shot, a meal, a moment in time, a piece of art – but we can believe in the concept and strive for perfection fearlessly.
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