Kelley Stearns Fox, Owner and Winemaker

Kelley has been a full-time winemaker in the Willamette Valley of Oregon for 10 years.  Her experience includes Torii Mor (2000, 2001), Hamacher (2002, 2003), and The Eyrie Vineyards (2004). She has also worked a vintage in Central Otago, New Zealand.  Kelley has been the winemaker at Scott Paul Wines in Carlton, sharing the title with owner Scott Wright, since 2005.

Kelley spent her first four years in the Midwest, the next five in the Netherlands and finished high school (The Hockaday School) in Dallas, Texas. She has a B.S. in Psychology and a minor in Biology from Texas AM University. She 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 her doctorate, Kelley changed course to pursue winemaking.  She learned winemaking not from a classroom or textbooks but directly from very talented Oregon winemakers. By far her biggest influence was and continues to be 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.

(photo taken by Brianne Day during vintage 2010. I am putting the 2010 Pinot into barrels at the lovely Scott Paul Wines facility, where Scott has so kindly allowed me to make my own wines. )