From Ulysses Press
On Sale October 7th
June 18, 2025 (Los Angeles, CA) — Tor Kenward’s best-selling memoir, Reflections of a Vintner: Stories and Seasonal Wisdom from a Lifetime in Napa Valley, is set for a new edition from Ulysses Press. It will be on sale October 7th but can be preordered wherever books are sold.
This edition will feature forewords by Robert M. Parker Jr. and Thomas Keller and a new afterword by the acclaimed author of The Wine Bible, Karen MacNeil. It also features an updated introduction from Tor and new photographs.
Following the calendar year, each chapter opens with the challenges and opportunities a winemaker faces that month—in the vineyard, winery, tasting room, and out on the road.
Reflections of a Vintner recounts the lessons learned, relationships forged, and observations made from an insider’s nearly fifty-year journey through the burgeoning wine industry in Napa Valley. From the mid-seventies, when there were less than fifty wineries, to the present, with over eight hundred, Tor Kenward shares his recollections as the region became a world-class wine destination.
Reflections of a Vintner: Stories and Seasonal Wisdom from a Lifetime in Napa Valley
Tor Kenward
Afterword by Karen MacNeil / Foreword by Robert M. Parker Jr. and Thomas Keller
Ulysses Press
On Sale Date: October 7, 2025
Hardcover ISBN: 9781646048694; 224 pages; $29.95 ($38.95 Canada)
Ebook ISBN: 9781646048700; $19.99 ($14.99 Canada)
ABOUT TOR Wines
Tor Kenward is a winemaking icon, having spent nearly five decades on the front lines as a Napa Valley vintner. In 2001 he and his wife Susan founded TOR Wines to focus on small production, single-vineyard wines from esteemed family owned vineyard sites including; Beckstoffer To Kalon, Beckstoffer Dr. Crane, Vine Hill Ranch Vineyard, Melanson Vineyard, and Hyde Vineyard. TOR has collected twenty 100-point scores and counting, across multiple vintages released. The 2018 vintage of their flagship Cuvée, Black Magic, is now a 500-point wine.
In 2022, Tor released his best selling memoir, Reflections of a Vintner: Stories and Seasonal Wisdom from a Lifetime in Napa Valley.
For more information, please visit www.torwines.com.
ABOUT ULYSSES PRESS
Named one of Publishers Weekly’s ten “fastest-growing independent publishers,” Ulysses Press, an imprint of The Stable Book Group, is reinventing the relationship between reader, author, and publisher. Beyond market-driven, Ulysses Press focuses on highly targeted niche groups that aren’t being offered the books they want by the big corporate-owned publishing houses. At Ulysses, we believe that, as pop culture changes at the speed of the internet, books have a powerful role to play in the interconnected world. Above all other media, books offer readers a trusted source for information and a vital escape from our highly connected, digital world. Follow Ulysses on social media (@ulyssespress).
