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Together they founded The PlumpJack Group in 1992 and opened the PlumpJack wine store, then expanding to include a boutique hotel, three restaurants and, in 1997, PlumpJack Winery (replacing Mt ...
For years PlumpJack Cafe has been known as a fine-dining restaurant with a cafe wine list. You could always get a great meal and first-rate service, but owners Bill Getty and Gavin Newsom wanted ...
Screw caps provide accessibility and corks bring tradition. But what do each actually do to the taste of your wine?
The first luxury wine with a metal screw cap is the Napa Valley's PlumpJack Cabernet Sauvignon, and it was a long time coming. For thousands of years, natural cork stoppers from cork trees, mostly ...
Vineyard manager Dave Pirio scans the perimeter of the 53-acre PlumpJack Winery in Napa Valley, Calif., looking for the enemy. Kneeling low to the ground, he flips over big, shiny grape leaves one by ...
As part of its 10th anniversary celebration this fall, PlumpJack Winery let friends of the winery and a number of wine writers take part in a noble experiment.
As well-received and critically acclaimed as PlumpJack wines have been since the Oakville, Calif., winery came on line in 1995, the owners concluded a few years ago that more of a good thing ...
A winery group co-founded by Gov. Gavin Newsom has acquired a 129-acre vineyard in northeastern Napa County for $14.5 million. PlumpJack Group, whose estate wineries include Napa Valley’s ...
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses a statue given to him by the Getty family, which sits in PlumpJack Wine and Spirits, the store he opened in 1992 in the Marina District of San Francisco.
About seven years ago PlumpJack Winery made an announcement that raised eyebrows throughout the wine world — half of its 1997 reserve cabernet sauvignon reserve was bottled with a traditional ...
PlumpJack Winery, at the edge of the zone to the north, posted to Facebook on Tuesday that "by some miracle, all four of our Napa Valley wineries were untouched by the devastating fire ...