ABOUT US

Kelly Fleming is an entrepreneur with an uncanny design eye. She has developed restaurants as well as a range of other projects; her passions include photography and the art of entertaining. Today she is based in Texas.

A native of Oregon, Kelly came to wine with deep experience in fine restaurants, a love of farming, and a solid background in art and architecture. As a restaurateur she visited Napa Valley often, and in 1998 she purchased the 300-acre Calistoga property in Simmons Canyon that would become Kelly Fleming Wines.

Over the years she oversaw the development of the site’s 12-acre vineyard and the construction of caves and a winery, overcoming obstacles such as water scarcity, fire danger, red tape, and even a persistent wild bear. An avid gardener, beekeeper and animal lover – as comfortable with a forklift as an adding machine - Kelly turned a precious piece of land into a Napa Valley oasis, a place where the wild and the tamed, the undeveloped and the cultivated, live comfortably side by side.

Kelly sold the winery in 2024.