Kelley Fox Wines is a small winery created in 2007 by Kelley Fox and her father, Gerson “Gus” Stearns. The first vintage (2007) started with just over 100 cases. The annual case production is now around 5500 cases. Kelley learned winemaking not from a classroom, textbooks or from working in other regions, but directly from Oregon winemakers who had put in some serious time. She was deeply influenced by her dear friend and former employer, the late David Lett of The Eyrie Vineyards.  David was the ultimate iconoclast who pioneered the Oregon wine industry in the 1960’s.

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, wines specifically of their vineyards. Kelley Fox states that her work is responding to the essence of the fruit from each block, carrying the essence of the earth that bore it, along with the details of the year (the weather, the stars, and the planets, etc. etc.).