Fox Run Appoints New Assistant Winemaker, Ashley McCaffrey Posted on February 04, 2021
PENN YAN, NY – Fox Run Vineyards rang in the new year with an important new hire. The Seneca Lake winery announced Ashley McCaffrey as its new Assistant Winemaker, the first changing of the guard in half a decade for the winery production team. A graduate of the Finger Lakes Community College Viticulture and Wine Technology program, McCaffrey assumed she would pursue wine education and become a sommelier. Her path quickly changed after interning with the Fox Run winemaking team in 2014. “Within a few weeks of working with Peter Bell, Lindsey VanKeuren, and Sarah Gummoe, I was quickly convinced that my real passion lay in production,” said McCaffrey. Since then, she has gone on to work with winemakers at Sheldrake Point Winery, Three Brothers Wineries, and Saint Clair Family Estates in Marlborough, NZ. McCaffrey has even dabbled in craft beer production and cidermaking.