Kelley Fox Freedom Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir 2021
$250.00 inc. GST
AROMA: Violets, wild cherry, red berries, subtle medicinal/herbal lift.
PALATE: Bright, energetic acidity with fine tannins, concentrated red/black fruit and a saline/cola note that gives tension and length.
FOOD MATCH: Confit duck breast with a cherry and white miso reduction.
Grape Variety: Pinot Noir
Drinking window: 2025-2035
Alc. 13, 00%
62 in stock
Description
Kelley Fox Wines is a small winery created in 2007 along with my father, Gerson “Gus” Stearns. Kelley has lived in the Willamette Valley since the late 80’s. The first vintage (2007) started with just over 100 cases. The annual case production is now around 5500 cases, from vineyards including the historic Maresh Vineyard (1970-1991 vine ages), Hyland Vineyard (through 2019), Freedom Hill Vineyard, Weber Vineyard (1983 and 1988 Pinot), Durant Vineyard (Chardonnay, Pinot gris, and starting in 2022, Pinot noir), Dux Vineyard (Chardonnay), Carter Vineyard (1983 old vine), and Canary Hill Vineyard.
Full-time, year-round, on-the-floor Oregon Pinot noir winemaker since 2000. Her education includes a B.S. in Psychology and a minor in Biology from Texas AM University. I graduated Magna Cum Laude with dual degrees in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Oregon State University and was admitted to the PhD program in Biochemistry. Her winemaking experience includes Torii Mor, Hamacher, The Eyrie Vineyards, and ten years as winemaker at Scott Paul Wines (August 2005 to about mid-April 2015). Since then, I have happily worked for my own winery exclusively. Starting with the harvest of 2018, I have been producing my wines at the winery of dear, longtime friends, Ann and Dean Fisher of ADEA Wine Company.
The wines are made to reflect the land, the vines, the fruit of the vines, the year, and everything else unknown and unseen that comes with those things. They are Oregon wines, and hopefully, they are wines specifically of their vineyards. That said, the wines are not really “made” at all. Her winery emphasizes terroir‑driven Pinot noir and Chardonnay with small, carefully made lots. Her style is often described as intuitive, soulful, and anti‑commercial, valuing purity, elegance, and a deep connection to place; she speaks about the land, trees, and spiritual inspiration behind her wines in interviews and profiles.
“It’s deeper red than my other Pinots, and both youthful and transparent. I love the hint of violets on the nose carried by red fruits, subtle spices on ocean air. Overall, this wine is deeper than my other bottlings, and the mouth is full of just-ripe blackberries with a hint of salinity and cola. This Freedom Hill is delicious and has a fine focus that continues through the long finish.” (Kelley Fox)
Additional Information
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| vintage | 2021 |
| Organic | Yes |
Reviews / Ratings / Awards
Winefront
Kelley Fox Freedom Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir 2021 – 95+ / 100 Points
Eola-Amity Hills AVA, first planted 1982.
Raspberry, milk chocolate, potpourri, cinnamon. Fresh, quite ‘mineral’ in character, raspberry and cherry, a little more flesh to this (than the Carter and Weber), though it’s still a wine of delicacy, perfume and finesse. Fine dusty and peppery tannin, and a crisp finish of excellent length. Lovely wine.
– Gary Walsh
Jeb Dunnuck
Kelley Fox Freedom Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir 2021 – 98 / 100 Points
“It’s deeper red than my other Pinots, and both youthful and transparent. I love the hint of violets on the nose carried by red fruits, subtle spices on ocean air. Overall, this wine is deeper than my other bottlings, and the mouth is full of just-ripe blackberries with a hint of salinity and cola. This Freedom Hill is delicious and has a fine focus that continues through the long finish.”
– Audrey Frick
