James The Wine Guy (also known as James Melendez) is a wine reviewer, writer, and videographer who has created...
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Prolific wine reviewer, writer, and videographer James Melendez — also known as James The Wine Guy — has produced...
Portland-based travel writer Margot Bigg has included us in yet another travel guide. We’re honored and thrilled to have...
Back on August 1 we were the ONLY winery featured in KGW-TV News’ “What to do with Chynna &...
Just in time for the Holiday Shopping Season, publisher and podcaster Lisa Smith welcomed Winemaker Dave back for a...
Travel writer Margot Bigg, who’s based in Portland, has featured us again! This time, she included a quote from...
A couple of months ago, publisher and podcaster Lisa Smith invited Winemaker Dave for an interview on her Big...
The brainchild of winery public relations specialist Carl Giavanti, the Wine Characters site presents “Characters With Wine | Wines...
The Written Palette’s Cori Solomon — a Los Angeles-based wine writer who visited us a few years ago —...
Melissa and Jeff Lawson describe their Drink the Bottles website as “gathering place for wine and whiskey lovers without...
The Bells Up Winery Story…
“If you’re this successful in a career that makes you sick, stressed and miserable… how much more successful would you be doing something you love?”
That’s the question Sara asked Dave almost two decades ago, following his mental and physical breakdown from more than a decade as a successful corporate tax attorney. This, while watching Sara’s professional mentor battle pancreatic cancer at age 40.
The answer, for us, was that life is too short to spend unhappy. So we turned the basement hobby that brought Dave joy — winemaking — into Bells Up Winery.
Today — micro-boutique, un-domaine and always open by appointment — Bells Up composes 600 cases annually of handcrafted, classically-styled Oregon Pinot Noir, Rosé, Pinot Blanc, Seyval Blanc, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Schioppettino with grapes sourced exclusively from our estate vineyard and from Summit View Vineyard in Eastern Oregon.