There’s something especially meaningful about reconnecting with someone who has followed your journey from the early days. In January,...
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As we raise our glasses to the start of a wonderful new wine year, we’re thrilled to share some...
Even in a year filled with remarkable travel and tasting experiences, it meant a great deal to see Bells...
Over the past few years, James Melendez (aka James The Wine Guy) has reviewed many of our wines, following...
James Melendez—who reviews wines as James The Wine Guy—has sampled thousands of wines over nearly two decades. A former...
We rarely submit our wines for scoring by large publications. As a small, micro-boutique winery, most of the wines...
Anatoli Levine, who writes and reviews wines via his Talk-A-Vino site, checked in with us earlier this year for...
James The Wine Guy (also known as James Melendez) is a wine reviewer, writer, and videographer who has created...
Prolific wine reviewer, writer, and videographer James Melendez — also known as James The Wine Guy — has produced...
Like most wineries, we started offering virtual tasting appointments during Covid. But we’ve continued to do them for media...
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.