The Whole Vine website features a short video of Ms. Banke explaining the company's mission.
Jackson is survived by his wife Barbara Banke, who shares his love of horses, and five children.
Following his death, Banke, his widow, made the decision to keep the filly.
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Ms. Banke has made several high-profile acquisitions since she took over the company two years ago, after her husband's death.
Ms. Banke had just returned from a trip to visit their Italian property Tenuta di Arceno and to attend Vinitaly, the Italian trade fair.
On the other hand, as Mr. Ullom noted, Ms. Banke may ultimately end up having an even greater impact on the world of wine.
There are a few nonwine projects in the works as well, including Ms. Banke's Whole Vine Products, a company she created with a friend.
The former may even prove to have health-enhancing qualities, according to Ms. Banke, who will fly to a human trial at the Mayo Clinic later this year.
Ms. Banke has already met with an architect about building a winery at Zena Crown, where she hopes to produce an estate Pinot Noir in 2013 or 2014.
Devoting efforts to independent boutique wineries like Lokoya and Hartford Court owned with wife Barbara Banke and family, and to international winery efforts in Chile, Italy and Australia.
Although he is focused on the small-winery unit, just renamed Jackson Family Farms, there, too, he is ceding more matters to management, which includes his wife, Barbara Banke.
The current era, said Mr. Ullom, is "a supernova" compared with a decade ago, and he speculated that Ms. Banke's influence might prove even greater than that of her husband.
Ms. Banke's influence can be felt most immediately in Oregon, where on Monday the company closed on the famed Zena Crown vineyard in the Eola-Amity Hills region (along with Gran Moraine in Yamhill-Carlton).
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