We get a lot of questions of how we came up with the name, so I thought it appropriate to explain. One of my sisters, Jacque, whom I was especially close to, was very excited about our vinegar project. When we started talking about a name she had no doubt that it should be named ‘Giorgio Paulio’ as she had a vivid memory of the priest intoning that name when I was christened as a baby at the St. Francis Mission church. She had thought it was very funny at the time and was still laughing about it when she insisted that was what we should call our ‘vinegary’. Unfortunately, we lost her to colon cancer before she had a chance to see our new facility and enjoy our special hand-made vinegars. I wanted to honor her memory and her insistence on the name, but I couldn’t bring myself to use the European pronunciation, so we settled on George Paul as a compromise, and I’m sure she would be just as tickled about that as her original idea. So, that’s why we are George Paul Vinegar, in memory of my beloved sister Jacqueline Carey. My daughter Emily, a letterpress printer, came up with the idea of using my signature as our logo, and I hope it conveys the personal attention and care that we put into every bottle of our vinegar.
~George Paul Johnson