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 Vintage2012 Label 1 of 75 
TypeRed
ProducerPlumpjack (web)
VarietyCabernet Sauvignon
DesignationReserve
Vineyardn/a
CountryUSA
RegionCalifornia
SubRegionNapa Valley
AppellationOakville

Drinking Windows and Values
Drinking window: Drink between 2017 and 2029 (based on 5 user opinions)
Wine Market Journal quarterly auction price: See PlumpJack Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville Reserve on the Wine Market Journal.

Community Tasting History

Community Tasting Notes (average 95.7 pts. and median of 95 pts. in 15 notes) - hiding notes with no text

 Tasted by ajrez on 9/24/2020 & rated 96 points: Really a 96+ with upside to 97 or 97+ (1130 views)
 Tasted by jdrhyne on 9/24/2020 & rated 97 points: Decanted for 6 hours. Big bold fruit nose, clearly a new world cab with strawberries, cherries that leads to leather, cedar, oak. The mid palate is complex with an amazing 30 second finish. I’m not a huge big bold new world cab fan and enjoy more complexity, darker fruit but this was amazing. (1398 views)
 Tasted by Bethwoff on 1/25/2019 & rated 98 points: Decant 2-3 hours before (1882 views)
 Tasted by NorCal1849 on 2/14/2016 & rated 96 points: Parker's right, excellent wine. $300/btl? Not that excellent. (3993 views)

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By Antonio Galloni
Vinous, New Releases from Napa Valley: 2012 and 2013 (Dec 2014) (10/1/2014)
(Plumpjack Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Oakville) Subscribe to see review text.
By Antonio Galloni
Vinous, 2011 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon: Terroir Matters - Updated (Nov 2013)
(Plumpjack Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Oakville) Subscribe to see review text.
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Plumpjack

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Cabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet Sauvignon is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. From its origins in Bordeaux, Cabernet has successfully spread to almost every winegrowing country in the world. It is now the key grape variety in many first-rate New World wine regions, most notably Napa Valley, Coonawarra and Maipo Valley. Wherever they come from, Cabernet Sauvignon wines always seem to demonstrate a handful of common character traits: deep color, good tannin structure, moderate acidity and aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, dark spices and cedarwood.

Used as frequently in blends as in varietal wines, Cabernet Sauvignon has a large number of common blending partners. Apart from the obvious Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the most prevalent of these are Malbec, Petit Verdot and Carmenere (the ingredients of a classic Bordeaux Blend), Shiraz (in Australia's favorite blend) and in Spain and South America, a Cabernet – Tempranillo blend is now commonplace. Even the bold Tannat-based wines of Madiran are now generally softened with Cabernet Sauvignon

Reserve

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USA

American wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.

California

2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson

Napa Valley

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