Kelley Fox Wines

Portland, Oregon, USA

Kelley Fox Wines is a small winery that Kelley created along with her father, Gerson Stearns. The first vintage was 2007, starting with just over 100 cases. The annual case production is now just shy of 2000 cases, all from the historic Maresh Vineyard and the Demeter-certified biodynamic Momtazi Vineyard (since the beginning).

The Maresh and the Momtazi bottling so far have been 100% free-run. The rest of Kelley’s Maresh fruit has been coming from blocks Jim Maresh Sr. has personally farmed. The wines are pressed at dryness in a modern basket press through 2014 and a pneumatic press 2015 and beyond. Both the free-run and press wine are settled-separately-before barrelling down Malolactic fermentations to date have been spontaneous. Bottling is about 11 months post-picking and on biodynamically favourable dates.