Dr. Michael Apstein, who has written about wine for more than 30 years, recently agreed to sample five of...
Archive for category: Reviews
Southern California wine reviewers, Nathan and Courtney Marton of Winery Reflections, have shared their thoughts on our current 2023...
Nathan and Courtney Marton — husband and wife wine reviewers from Southern California — routinely share their thoughts on...
Although we are sadly sold out of it, we were honored that Tamara Belgard Turner included our Joy Estate...
James Melendez — also known as James The Wine Guy — is a prolific wine reviewer, writer and videographer....
Senior Editor Jeremy Young of International Wine Report recently asked us to send him three of our latest Pinot...
Great Northwest Wine’s team of reviewers — led by President and CEO Eric Degerman — recently sampled and posted...
Honest to goodness, the hardest working wine, food, travel, and lifestyle blogger and writer Marlynn Schotland — the force...
Husband-and-wife writers John and Linda Compisi cover food, drink, and travel on their blog, Bites, Flights and Sights. Passionate...
Sometimes praise and props slip by us. And it is SO EMBARRASSING when that happens. We even use Google...
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.