Prolific wine reviewer, writer, and videographer James Melendez — also known as James The Wine Guy — has produced...
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Dr. Michael Apstein, who has written about wine for more than 30 years, recently agreed to sample five of...
Senior Editor Jeremy Young of International Wine Report recently asked us to send him three of our latest Pinot...
Honest to goodness, the hardest working wine, food, travel, and lifestyle blogger and writer Marlynn Schotland — the force...
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The latest Bells Up wine to be reviewed by Southern California-based wine reviewers Nathan and Courtney Marton is the...
James Melendez — who produces both written and filmed wine reviews on his site and social media outlets as...
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Kathleen Willcox, a wine writer and reviewer who contributes to Wine Searcher, Wine Enthusiast, Wine Industry Network Advisor, and...
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 15 years 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, Pinot Blanc, Rosé, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Seyval Blanc (the Willamette Valley’s first and only planting).