The Written Palette’s Cori Solomon — a Los Angeles-based wine writer who visited us a few years ago —...
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In our previous post, we shared how Melissa and Jeff Lawson—married wine reviewers who curate the Drink the Bottles...
Nathan and Courtney Marton — husband and wife wine reviewers from Southern California — routinely share their thoughts on...
James Melendez — also known as James The Wine Guy — is a prolific wine reviewer, writer and videographer....
Freelance travel writer, photographer, and videographer Scott Kendall hangs his hat in The Woodlands, Texas — when he’s not...
Under the category of “better late than never,” we finally got the scores from the wines reviewed by Samantha...
During harvest, award-winning wine writer and journalist Elizabeth Smith paid us a return visit. She previously covered us for...
Marissa Ooyevaar, who creates travel, wine, and lifestyle content across multiple channels as A Blonde Vintage, is a Willamette...
Southern California-based wine reviewers Nathan and Courtney Marton (who visited us pre-Covid) share their impressions of different vintages on...
Wine reviewers, writers, and bloggers Melissa and Jeff Lawson curate and produce content for their Drink The Bottles website....
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).