Jackson Pawlick 2001-2017
From John, November 1st, 2017It is with heavy hearts that we say goodbye to our best dog ever, Ms Jackson Pawlick, vineyard and delivery assistant, hiking and running companion and source of endless entertainment for 16 years.
Although she had humble beginnings in Estacada, she was an Einstein of dogs. She knew over 50 words, her favorite being “cheese” but she recognized many important phrases such as “go get son of a bitch” (her squeeky George Bush toy), lets go to the river, the names of everyone in the family & the winery. Jackson was a running phenom easily covering 5-6 miles in Forest Park if asked to do so. She practiced yoga on command (down dog!), fetched the New York times every morning, but perhaps her coup de gras was “spazz out”, a amalgamation of 4 favorite tricks, spinning around, rolling over, speaking and finally downward dog. More than anything she was a unique personality, a sweet soul, a loyal friend.
She was pre-deceased by her best friend, Guido and is survived by our new puppy Linus, Julian’s corgi P. Middy and the extended Paul-Wadsworth family. We hope she is eating cheese in doggie heaven.
Recent News & Rants
The 2025 Vintage
Fermentations are now mostly complete and the cellar is angling down to its winter
temperature, so now is the time to button up my cardigan and reflect on the vintage just completed.
The Broken Immigration System
Now that the harvest season is largely over in Oregon, ICE has started to raid the farming communities in the Willamette Valley, arresting literally tens to hundreds at a time. Without immigrant workers helping us, we have no chance of bringing in a harvest next year. So the question becomes “what can we do?”
There’s More... >Harvesting in the Midst of ICE Storms
In the midst of the ICE storm in Portland, we are fermenting our fruit from an exceptional vintage, hoping that what we will best remember from 2025
will not be the carnage wreaked upon our immigrant workers but rather 2025 as a truly magnificent vintage!