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...
Melissa and Jeff Lawson describe their Drink the Bottles website as “gathering place for wine and whiskey lovers without...
In our previous post, we shared how Melissa and Jeff Lawson—married wine reviewers who curate the Drink the Bottles...
Dr. Michael Apstein, who has written about wine for more than 30 years, recently agreed to sample five of...
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...
Fodor’s Travel, publishers of both printed books and online travel guides, recently released their 2023 Oregon guidebook. Writer Margot...
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, Rosé, Pinot Blanc, Seyval Blanc, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Schioppettino with grapes sourced from our estate vineyard and from Summit View Vineyard in Eastern Oregon.