WildAire
Alcoholic Beverages - McMinnville, OR, US
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WildAire was founded with love in 2005 by Matt and Jean Driscoll after years of immersing themselves in the Willamette Valley wine scene. They started the journey 21 years ago by a chance visit to Oregon to attend a friend's wedding and their destiny was sealed. After getting married in 2000, they moved 3000 miles from Virginia to learn all aspects of the wine business in Oregon. Their time in the Willamette Valley began by studying winemaking, farming, and marketing Pinot Noir at the Northwest Viticulture Center and by working with some of Oregon's top winemakers. Matt has 15 vintages of winemaking experience and oversees the production for WildAire while Jean focuses on the sales, marketing, and financial side of the family business. Their vision is to create elegant wines with love and passion that are acid driven and food friendly using fruit grown from some of Oregon's greatest vineyard sites. WildAire's small size allows them to pay careful attention to every detail of the winemaking process. In 2005, they sold their house in Salem and moved to McMinnville to form a wine company. The winery is now located at the new Beacon Hill Winery in Gaston, Oregon. The name "WildAire" comes from the name of Matt's family estate in Roanoke, VA. The name was discovered carved into a granite fireplace mantle in a long since forgotten remains of a hotel near the peak of McAfee Knob near Roanoke. The hotel was used as a base by Rangers on the Appalachian Trail and lightning has since burned it to the ground, leaving nothing but the fireplace standing. Matt's Mother wanted them to use the name for their new wine business and when she passed away, they thought it would be a fitting tribute to her memory to call it "WildAire".
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