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Wine Description
The Story
To Kalon: \TO ka∙lon\ noun: the ideal of physical and moral beauty especially as conceived by the philosophers of classical Greece.
It was also the ancient Greeks who first said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If that is true, then To Kalon Vineyard is aptly named and considered by countless people over many decades as the preeminent vineyard of Napa Valley. Realm has been fortunate to work with exceptional fruit from Beckstoffer...
Wine Information
The Name
Beckstoffer To Kalon is the vineyard in the Oakville AVA from which we source this single vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon. It is owned by Andy Beckstoffer. Planted in 1868, the vineyard was named To Kalon, a Greek term which means “ideal physical or moral beauty.”
The Label
To Kalon was the hardest label to figure out; how do you represent “ideal beauty” on a wine label? After all, isn’t beauty in the eye of the beholder? Aha…after s...
