92pts Jeb Dunnuck

The 2021 Pinot Blanc Freedom Hill Vineyard is floral with white flowers, almond, and melon, and the palate is medium-bodied, offering notes of lime zest, white peach, and saline along with a chalky mineral texture. Drink 2023-2030.

Winemaker Notes

This Pinot blanc has youthful, pale golden colour and brilliant transparency that is pleasing to the eye. The nose is full of minerals with delicate citrus and floral notes. It’s lovely. Though bone dry, there is a sweetness-of-fruit in the mouth that nicely balances the racy acidity. This wine evokes an alpine white, with all of the freshness and rarified air along with the smell of mountain snow.

About the Winery

Kelley Fox Wines is a small winery created in 2007. The first vintage (2007) started with just over 100 cases. The annual case production is now between 2700 and 3000 cases, all from the historic Maresh Vineyard, the Demeter-certified biodynamic Momtazi Vineyard (both since the beginning) along with Hyland (1988 Coury Clone Pinot), Freedom Hill (barrel-fermented Pinot blanc), and beginning in 2018, Weber (1983 and 1988 Pinot), and Durant Vineyard (Chardonnay). Both Weber and Durant are family owned and farmed old vine vineyards in the Dundee Hills.