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Kelley Fox 'Mirabai' Dundee Hills, 2022

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Kelley Fox 'Mirabai' Dundee Hills, 2022

Kelley Fox 'Mirabai' Dundee Hills, 2022

$48.00 $54.00 saving $6.00
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Of the 961 Cases produced, Connecticut has received a precious 18 in our annual allocation. Of these 18 12 Packs, our Shops are blessed by a very long friendship with Kelley, personally, and 9 are arriving in our Shops tomorrow. Not to be missed, most of this very special wine is, of course, sold either at the domain (where it is now sold out), in a hyper local Willamette market, or at fine restaurants. The chance to have a bottle on your own table, let alone some socked away in the Cellar, is a bit of delicious folly...a folly I am proud and grateful to present. Please indulge. Please don't wait. There is never enough of this lovely bottling each year. Wine arrives tomorrow. This is a reservation presell.
XOXO,
Jacob
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The Mirabai 2022 is medium cool red with deep pink and blue undertones and brilliant transparency. True to the Dundee Hills, this Mirabai begins with a beautiful, fresh, and concentrated strawberry nose with subtle spices and tastes of the same along with raspberries. There is a very pleasing sappiness that adds to the red berry deliciousness with any excess of either fruit or weight. I love the balance, the texture and long finish of this wine. I just wish I had more of it!
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Appellation: Dundee Hills A.V.A.
Picking Dates: 74% Weber Vineyard: 15 and 16 October 2022. 1983 franc de pied.
12% Maresh Vineyard: 11 October 2022. 1988 franc de pied.
9%   Durant Vineyard:  13 October 2022. 1973 franc de pied
5% Anderson Vineyard: 20 October 2022. 1992.

Barrels: neutral Burgundy barrels (228L) made from French forests
Bottling Date: 26 May 2023
Alcohol: 13.0 %
Whole Cluster: about 30%
Cases Produced: (961) cases
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PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU ARE SHOPPING FROM LITCHFIELD COUNTY, PLEASE MARK YOUR WINE FOR CURBSIDE PICKUP AND WE WILL HAVE YOUR ORDER READY SATURDAY MORNING, IN STORE.
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A note from Kelley: Kelley Fox Wines is a small winery I created in 2007 along with my father, Gerson "Gus" Stearns. Though I have lived in the Willamette Valley for over 32 years, and I find myself loving Oregon more every year. The first vintage (2007) started with just over 100 cases. The annual case production is now around 5000 cases, from vineyards including the historic Maresh Vineyard, Hyland Vineyard (1988 Coury Clone Pinot), Freedom Hill Vineyard(barrel-fermented Pinot blanc, Pinot noir, and Chardonnay), Weber Vineyard(1983 and 1988 Pinot), Durant Vineyard (Chardonnay and Pinot gris), Dux Vineyard (Chardonnay), Carter Vineyard (1982 old vine), and Canary Hill Vineyard.

I've been a 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. 

Before completing the doctorate, I changed my path to pursue winemaking.  I learned winemaking not from a classroom or textbooks or from other regions, but directly from Oregon winemakers who had put in some serious time. I was deeply influenced by my 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.

My winemaking experience includes Torii Mor, Hamacher, and Eyrie, 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.