Vineyards include Shea, Abbey Ridge, McCrone, Guadalupe, Arcus, and Carter Vineyards. Ken Wright Cellars makes consistently excellent Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Pinot Blanc at the winery in Carlton, Oregon. Known for careful blending of cuvees from small single vineyard sites, Ken Wright Cellars produces rich, sophisticated, elegant wines that are sold out a year before they are released. Ken Wright Cellars recently moved into a new 8400 square foot facility, a sign of the success of their wines. Current production levels are at 7500 cases of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Pinot Blanc.
All wines are vineyard designated, made with careful attention to vineyard management.
Ken Wright and his associates select vineyard sites that they then personally supervise, culminating in a three week period during harvest when they seem to stay up 24 hours a day, cell phones to ears, running from site to site, watching for just the right moment to harvest. Then, as Ken puts it, he tries to stay out of the way of the wine, and let it become what it is meant to be. Ken Wright Cellars has made sites such as Canary Hill, Croft, Guadalupe, and Youngberg famous for the wines the winery has made from them. Currently, Ken Wright Cellars makes wines from over ten different small plots, and has purchased land and planted vineyards of his own. Ken Wright Cellars was founded in 1993, and its first vintage was produced in 1994.