His father, Allan Kenward, was a writer, his mother, a painter.

Kenward grew up a child of the 50s, with bohemian parents. He’s interested in things, and easily draws others into conversation in a way that gets them interested too, no matter what the subject. Kenward seems like he’s constantly brimming with energy and has an earnestness that is both disarming and infectious.

You know, the one you could sit in a bar with and talk about philosophy until the wee hours of the morning?

Yes, his receding hairline has gone gray and white, but his ever-present goatee remains neatly trimmed beneath his trademark round spectacles, giving him the air of your favorite college professor. This year he’s 72 and recently finished his 44th harvest in Napa Valley, and his 19th as the owner of his own small wine label TOR Wines. For starters, he moves through life and conversation like a man twenty years his junior, with a spring in his step and an animated twinkle in his eye, incredibly comfortable in his own skin.

Hang out with Kenward for a little while and you might begin to observe some of the effects of doing what you love and making a decent living at it for most of your life. Tor Kenward has basically had his dream job since the age of 29. There’s lucky and then there’s damned lucky.

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