Next week we’re moving to McMinnville, Oregon, so Dave no longer needs to commute 3 hours a day for his cellar job and our family can be together during the upcoming harvest season. Three months ago, we had our baby boy Lucas. His name means light giving and he has been just that, bringing clarity as to where our family should be – which is together.
This move will be no small feat. In the month after I gave birth, I interviewed and accepted a new job up in McMinnville, we put an offer on a house the day we viewed it, and listed and sold our house in Corvallis in 5 days. This included living in a hotel for a week so I wouldn’t go insane cleaning up after our kids for showings.
The week after our move, Dave graduates from Oregon State University with an enology & viticulture degree in Food Science & Technology. It seems like just yesterday we moved from California to Oregon. We really had no idea what to expect. The last four years flew by – but just like the experience of raising young kids, “the days are long, but the years are short”.
Dave has been at Argyle Winery since January logging his hours in the cellar, slowly learning that like a making a good wine becoming a winemaker takes time. The work poured out into harvesting, crushing, and bottling is an intense season… but after bottling, you wait. For Dave, after paying his dues in the cellar, a cellar master job would be the next logical step. Then, if the timing and opportunity arises, an assistant winemaker position. This period of waiting, gaining experience, networking, takes a different kind of education – an education in patience.
