WildAire Cellars
Fog rolling in at Illahe Vineyards
Address: 
128 West Main Street in downtown Carlton
Phone Number: 
503-851-3689
"From the soil, to the vine, to the bottle......Love, pure and simple." WildAire Cellars was started in 2005 and is the shared dream of the husband and wife team of Matt and Jean Driscoll of McMinnville, Oregon. WildAire Cellars is a small, virtual winery located in Illahe Vineyards' winery facility in Dallas, Oregon and we produce ultra-premium wines for an affordable price. In our first year of production we made approximately 70 cases of wine and we hope to increase that to about 2500 in the next few years. Our winemaking philosophy is to start with beautiful fruit from some of Oregon's premier vineyards and then gently guide the grapes through the fermentation. Our small size lets us pay careful attention to every detail of the winemaking process. We constantly taste and evaluate the wines during their lifespan to ensure that the wine is absolutely the best that we can make. We age all of our wines in French Oak barrels and about twenty to fifty percent of them are new oak. These ideas are all aimed at preserving the flavors and the aromas of terroir and the nuances of each vintage. Pinot Noir shows this like no other grape does with its delicate complexity. Each bottle is like a sliver of time that's slowly evolving, capturing the essence of the vineyard and the vintage.