Yamhill-Carlton · Carlton
Big Table Farm Wine Tours.
Wine tours to Big Table Farm run between Portland, Oregon pickups and the winery's Atelier tasting room at 128 S Pine St in downtown Carlton, OR 97111; the farm and winery sit in the Yamhill-Carlton AVA above Gaston. Winemaker Brian Marcy — cellar credits at Turley and Marcassin in California — and artist Clare Carver moved north in 2006 to a seventy-acre Gaston farm; she draws the label art by hand, he runs a Top 100-listed winery, and the working farm is the whole point. A vetted chauffeur who knows the wine-country road network handles the roughly 60-minute drive so the guest steps out at the Atelier door on the scheduled minute, and the vehicle holds through the full appointment.
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Last updated: September 23, 2026
Quick answer: Big Table Farm wine tours run to the winery's Atelier tasting room at 128 S Pine St in downtown Carlton, OR 97111; the home farm and winery carry a Gaston address inside the Yamhill-Carlton AVA. Wine & Spirits named Big Table Farm to its Top 100 Wineries in 2014 and 2015. Tastings run by appointment, requested by email to the winery, and the seated Big Table Tasting takes a single group of 2 to 6, so parties above 6 check capacity with the winery before booking a Sprinter-class vehicle for this stop. The Portland pickup runs about 60 minutes door-to-door. Volvo S90 $110/hr (three-hour minimum), Escalade ESV $135/hr, Sprinter $165/hr, VIP Lounge Sprinter $190/hr, Portland Executive Limo $190/hr (13 passengers) — the 20 percent service fee is included in every rate. Book at (503) 706-8662.
01 Big Table Farm & the Yamhill-Carlton
A winemaker and an artist,
The Estate Story.
Winemaker Brian Marcy and artist Clare Carver left Napa, where Brian had worked in wine for ten years, for Oregon in 2006, settling on the seventy-acre farm above Gaston where the winery now stands. The wines pour today at the Big Table Farm Atelier, the couple's studio and tasting room in downtown Carlton, where they share their wines and Clare's art by appointment.
Big Table Farm is not a winery with a petting zoo — it is a working farm that makes wine: draft horses, laying hens, pigs, a market garden, and vineyard blocks folded into the seventy acres. The farm feeds the table the place is named for, and visits fold into that rhythm.
Cellar pedigree meets the paintbrush
Brian Marcy's cellar résumé runs through Turley and Marcassin, then Blankiet, before the 2006 move north; Clare Carver farms the animals and draws the label art by hand. Winemaker and artist are one household, and the partnership is the brand.
A true working farm
The seventy acres at 26851 NW Williams Canyon Road raise free-range hens, pasture-raised pigs, goats and sheep, a team of draft horses, bee hives, and grass-fed cows alongside seasonal vegetables and the vineyard blocks. The table in the name is fed from that farm; the tasting itself happens at the Atelier in Carlton.
Tastings at the Atelier's big table
Visits run by appointment at the Big Table Farm Atelier in downtown Carlton, seated at the big table in its private room, with the current Pinot Noirs, Chardonnay, and the cult-favorite Laughing Pig rosé poured between farm stories. Carver's original label art hangs where the wines are poured — collectors recognize every frame.
Gaston's artisan hills
The farm shares Gaston's quiet hills with Elk Cove's estate a few minutes away, with the Atelier and the Carlton cluster twenty minutes south — the artisan counterpoint to the polished estates, and the stop guests describe first at dinner afterward.
Top 100 winery, hand-drawn labels
Wine & Spirits' Top 100 Wineries listings in 2014 and 2015 back what the cellar pedigree promises, but the labels are the collector's tell: they wear Carver's hand-drawn artwork, and the annual label set has its own following. Substance and charm in one seventy-acre package.
02 Service Standard
Vetted Chauffeurs, 35-Point Inspection,
And City Permitting.
Big Table Farm wine tour service runs on four operator standards that separate Marquee from rideshare and out-of-state operators arriving in the Yamhill-Carlton AVA: payroll chauffeurs, a daily 35-point vehicle inspection, Portland private-for-hire permitting held since 2018, and $1 million commercial liability on every ride to Carlton.
Chauffeurs on the Marquee payroll
Every chauffeur on a Big Table Farm tour sits on the Marquee payroll as a vetted professional rather than a 1099 gig contractor, with workers' comp on duty and the $1 million commercial liability policy on every wine-country ride. The chauffeur answers to Marquee leadership for punctuality and for arrival protocol at the Carlton Atelier, not to a gig app's surge clock.
Wine-country-ready 35-point inspection
Every vehicle clears a 35-point inspection before the day's first tour — tires, brakes, fluids, cabin detail, climate. Attention runs higher in the wet season on the country roads into Carlton, and monthly detail keeps the cabin clean for guests heading into a seated tasting at Big Table Farm.
Full fleet across five classes
The Volvo S90 at $110 per hour covers couples; the Escalade ESV at $135 carries up to 6; the Sprinter at $165 handles groups to 14 on multi-estate days with Big Table Farm as the small-party stop; the VIP Lounge Sprinter at $190 carries a celebration party of up to 10 across the same circuit; the Portland Executive Limo at $190 (13 passengers) adds a rear lounge table and a refrigerated cooler. All rates include the 20 percent service fee.
City permitting since 2018
Marquee has carried Portland Bureau of Transportation private-for-hire permitting since 2018 with continuous renewal. Corporate coordinators booking Big Table Farm retreats receive the permit, W-9, and insurance documentation within an hour of the first request — the compliance file procurement teams ask for before approving a wine-country vendor.
03 Tour Day Experience
The Big Table Farm
Tour Day, Sequenced.
A Big Table Farm tour day runs on four anchors from the Portland pickup to the drop back home. The Atelier sits on Pine Street in downtown Carlton, with Ken Wright's depot on the same street and the rest of the Carlton cluster around it; Elk Cove's estate is about twenty minutes north in the Gaston hills for the artisan-meets-estate contrast. A two-stop day runs 6 to 7 hours door-to-door. The full itinerary runs as one continuous booking with the chauffeur holding at each stop.
Pine Street drop
The Atelier sits about 60 minutes out from Portland at 128 S Pine St in downtown Carlton, one of the Yamhill-Carlton AVA's two namesake towns. The chauffeur drops at the door and holds nearby through the appointment.
Big table flight
Pours run at the appointment's own pace, seated at the big table in the Atelier's private room: Pinots, Chardonnay, and the Laughing Pig rosé. Per the winery, the seated Big Table Tasting runs Thursday to Saturday at 11 am or 1 pm for one group of 2 to 6 and takes about an hour; a Studio Tasting at the front bar is also by appointment.
Art at the Atelier, farm on Fridays
Carver's label originals hang at the Atelier where the wines pour. The farm itself, draft horses included, is visited through the winery's Farm Fridays format, May through August: a 9:30 am tour of the Gaston property with Clare, then a big table tasting at the Atelier. It runs by request and subject to the winery's availability, so confirm with the winery before dispatch builds the day around it.
Artisan-day pairing
Ken Wright's depot is the same-street second stop, and Elk Cove's polished estate sits twenty minutes north for the scale contrast when the day continues; the wider Carlton cluster fills a third stop. The Portland return runs about 60 minutes.
04 Booking Your Tour
Reservation, Chauffeur Match,
FlightAware, 24/7 Dispatch.
Booking a Big Table Farm wine tour runs through the same four-step process as every Marquee wine-country reservation: itinerary confirmation on the first call, a chauffeur matched to the party, FlightAware on any fly-in leg, and a 24/7 dispatcher at (503) 706-8662 for day-of adjustments.
Confirmation email plus day-before text
Call (503) 706-8662 or book online at any hour. Dispatch confirms the pickup address, the Big Table Farm reservation time, the passenger count, and the vehicle on the first exchange; a confirmation email lands within 10 minutes and a day-before text closes the loop. Guests who have not yet requested a tasting appointment from the winery get lead-time guidance; the run out to Carlton takes about 60 minutes.
Chauffeur matched to the itinerary
Dispatch matches the chauffeur and vehicle to the tour profile — couples in the S90, milestone groups in the Escalade, celebration circuits in the Sprinter classes — with a chauffeur who knows the Atelier's Pine Street curb and the estate approaches across the surrounding AVA map.
FlightAware on PDX arrivals
Fly-in wine weekends run on FlightAware: live wheels-down data feeds dispatch, the chauffeur meets the numbered PDX pick-up location, and the Big Table Farm reservation holds even when the inbound flight moves. A delayed flight shifts the pickup with no meter running on the wait.
24/7 dispatcher, not a call-center bot
A live dispatcher answers (503) 706-8662 around the clock for same-day adjustments — a stretched tasting, an added stop at a neighboring estate, or a harvest-season reroute around 99W traffic on the way to Carlton. Late-evening returns reach a person, not a queue.
05 Nearby Coverage
Service Areas Near Big Table Farm,
Same Fleet, Same Chauffeur Roster.
Marquee dispatch maps Big Table Farm into the broader Portland and Willamette Valley coverage grid. Pickups just outside the city line use the same vetted chauffeur roster and the same 35-point vehicle inspection standard at (503) 706-8662.
Elk Cove Vineyards Tour→
Campbell family since 1974, estate winery above Gaston.
Ken Wright Cellars Tour→
Carlton train-depot tasting room, single-vineyard Pinot map.
Carlton Wine Tour→
Main Street tasting rooms, Soter and Ken Wright Cellars, Yamhill-Carlton AVA.
Willamette Valley Tour→
Dundee Hills, Eola-Amity and Chehalem Mountains on one Sprinter day.
Frequently Asked
Questions, Answered.
How much does a Big Table Farm wine tour cost?
Big Table Farm tours book on the hourly rate — the Volvo S90 at $110 per hour on the three-hour minimum, the Cadillac Escalade ESV at $135 per hour for up to 6, or the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter at $165 per hour for groups up to 14 — with the 20 percent service fee included and the Portland round trip absorbed. The quote is fixed before pickup, with no surge pricing.
Where is Big Table Farm located?
Big Table Farm's farm and winery sit at 26851 NW Williams Canyon Road, Gaston, OR 97119, in the Yamhill-Carlton AVA; tastings run by appointment at the Big Table Farm Atelier, 128 S Pine St in downtown Carlton, about 60 minutes from Portland. The seventy acres carry draft horses, laying hens, pigs, and a market garden alongside the vineyard blocks. The chauffeur drops at the Atelier door on Pine Street and holds through the appointment.
Who founded Big Table Farm and why does the story matter?
Brian Marcy worked cellars whose names alone open doors — Turley, Marcassin, Blankiet — before he and artist Clare Carver bought seventy acres above Gaston in 2006. He makes the wines; she farms the animals and draws the label art by hand. The partnership is the brand, and it is entirely real.
Which AVA is Big Table Farm in?
Big Table Farm's winery and home farm lie above Gaston inside the Yamhill-Carlton AVA; the wines are sourced from vineyards across the Willamette Valley, with a Yamhill-Carlton Pinot Noir and Chardonnay among them. Elk Cove's estate is a near neighbor in the same hills. The tasting room is the Big Table Farm Atelier in downtown Carlton, one of the AVA's two namesake towns, about twenty minutes south of the farm and on the same street as Ken Wright's depot.
What does the Big Table Farm tasting include?
The seated Big Table Tasting is a private pour for one group of 2 to 6 at the big table in the Atelier's private room in downtown Carlton: the current Pinot Noirs and Chardonnay plus the cult-favorite Laughing Pig rosé over about an hour, with the big table story told alongside. Carver's art hangs in the same rooms. A Studio Tasting at the Atelier's front bar also runs by appointment.
What vehicles are available for a Big Table Farm tour?
The Volvo S90 runs $110 per hour; the Cadillac Escalade ESV carries up to 6 at $135 per hour. The Mercedes-Benz Sprinter (up to 14, $165 per hour), the VIP Lounge Sprinter (up to 10, $190 per hour), and the Portland Executive Limo (13, $190 per hour) suit multi-estate days where Big Table Farm is the small-party stop: the winery's seated Big Table Tasting takes one group of 2 to 6, and bigger parties check capacity with the winery.
How long is the drive from Portland to Big Table Farm?
Portland to the Big Table Farm Atelier in Carlton runs about 60 minutes door-to-door. Weekend wine-country traffic can add 15 to 25 minutes in harvest season from late August through October, which dispatch builds into the departure plan. The chauffeur checks ODOT TripCheck before rolling and adjusts the route rather than the reservation.
Can you combine Big Table Farm with other wineries?
Yes. Ken Wright's depot shares Pine Street with the Atelier in downtown Carlton, so a depot-plus-Atelier pairing runs without repositioning, and Elk Cove's estate is the twenty-minute leg north into the Gaston hills for a polished-estate contrast. Two stops run 6 to 7 hours door-to-door on a single booking, the chauffeur holding at each.
How far ahead should I book a Big Table Farm tour?
Book 14 to 21 days ahead for standard weekend afternoons and 30 to 45 days ahead for summer Saturdays, harvest weekends, and the Memorial Day and Thanksgiving open-house weekends, when both Big Table Farm reservations and vehicle availability tighten. Sprinter bookings for 10 or more lock about two weeks out. Parties above 6 confirm capacity with the winery, whose seated tasting is for one party of 2 to 6. The winery takes tasting appointments by email; dispatch coordinates the timing.
What makes Big Table Farm distinctive?
Big Table Farm is the valley's artisan original: Turley-and-Marcassin cellar pedigree, Wine & Spirits Top 100 Wineries listings, hand-drawn labels with their own collector following. The Wine & Spirits Top 100 Wineries nods came in 2014 and 2015, and Clare Carver's art hangs in the Atelier in downtown Carlton where the wines are poured, at the big table in the private room for one group of 2 to 6.
Does the chauffeur stay during the Big Table Farm tasting?
Yes. The chauffeur holds in downtown Carlton through the full tasting window on the hourly rate, so the vehicle is at the Atelier door the moment the party wraps — no mid-visit repositioning, no app request. Longer formats simply extend the hold; the rate structure does not change.
How much is the tasting fee at Big Table Farm?
Big Table Farm sets its own tasting fee and it moves with the experience booked, so the current price confirms when the appointment is requested by email to the winery. The transport side is the fixed part: the chauffeur holds in Carlton through the appointment on the hourly rate, Volvo S90 at $110 per hour with the 20 percent service fee included, and the booking page returns your exact tour quote.
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Book your Big Table Farm wine tour now. Call Marquee Chauffeur at (503) 706-8662, available 24/7. Turley-and-Marcassin cellar pedigree and a Wine & Spirits Top 100 Wineries listing (2014 and 2015) sit behind the pours at the big table in the Atelier's private room in Carlton, under hand-drawn labels with a collector following of their own. The run from Portland or PDX, the Carlton hold through the tasting, and the multi-winery sequencing with Elk Cove and the Carlton cluster all run under Portland private-for-hire permitting with vetted chauffeurs, a 35-point inspection, and $1 million commercial liability on every ride.