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...
Like most wineries, we started offering virtual tasting appointments during Covid. But we’ve continued to do them for media...
Dr. Michael Apstein, who has written about wine for more than 30 years, recently agreed to sample five of...
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 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).