PlumpJack Estate Winery

PlumpJack began with the San Francisco wine shop Gavin Newsom opened in 1992; he and Gordon Getty established the Oakville winery in 1995. The name comes from Shakespeare’s Falstaff. In 2000, the winery bottled its 1997 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon under both cork and screw cap to compare the two closures.

Its forty-seven-acre Oakville property has forty-two acres of vines at the foot of the Vaca Mountains, with gravel, clay, loam and silt varying across the vineyard. Aaron Miller has led winemaking since 2012, with Cabernet Sauvignon at the heart of the estate’s wines.