Kelley Fox ‘Maresh Vineyard’ Pinot Noir 2015
$122.00 inc. GST
AROMA: The nose is full of violet and petite rose petals, fresh rain on good earth. Transparent and full of light,
PALATE: Ripe cherry and dark berry fruit glide on the finish. This wine is made to age.
FOOD MATCH: Charcuterie board.
Grape Variety: Pinot Noir
Drinking window: 2025-2030
Alc. 13, 50%
65 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. My 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.
The Maresh 2015 is a selection of 6 barrels of my Long Rows (planted in 1970) and 2 barrels of my Old Block (planted in 1970). I do much of the farming of the canopy in these blocks personally each year (along with Block 8, which is entirely in the Mirabai). All of my wines in 2015 were 100% whole cluster.
Additional Information
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Reviews / Ratings / Awards
vinous.com
Kelley Fox ‘Maresh Vineyard’ Pinot Noir 2015 – 93 / 100 Points
Light vivid red. A highly aromatic bouquet evokes fresh red berries, blood orange and Asian spices, along with vibrant mineral and floral overtones. Juicy and precise on the palate, offering alluringly sweet raspberry liqueur, rose pastille and spicecake flavors that deepen and spread out steadily with air. Conveys a striking blend of power, tension and purity, finishing with finely woven tannins, superb clarity and emphatic, floral-driven persistence.
– Josh Raynolds
