Winemaker Dave had a milestone birthday back on September 27, 2018. So Sara put together a crazy day of...
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Urban Bliss Life Uses Bells Up Titan 2015 Pinot Noir in Decadent Brownie Recipe
, Feature Stories & Reviews, Recipe, Reviews, 2015 Titan, 2015 Titan Pinot Noir, Brownies, Marlynn Schotland, Recipe, Titan, Titan Pinot Noir, Urban Bliss Life, 0We love our chocolate over here at Bells Up. Both Dave and Sara are card-carrying chocoholics (please, no 12-steps...
Feast Your Eyes on This Recap of Bells Up’s First Winemaker Dinner at Agrivino
, Events & Tastings, Agrivino, Bells Up Winery, Dario Pisoni, Dave Specter, Winemaker Dinner, 0On Friday, September 14, Bells Up was the featured winery at a sumptuous, five-course traditional Italian Winemaker’s Dinner prepared...
Wine Press Northwest Features Our Vineyard and Inspiration
, Feature Stories & Reviews, In memory of, Vineyard, #bellsupmoment, Bells Up Story, Bells Up Vineyard, Bells Up Winery, Dave Specter, feature story, Pinot Noir, Sara Specter, Viki Eierdam, Vineyard, Wine Press Northwest, Wine Review, Wine Writer, 0We were incredibly touched to read the feature story by Viki Eierdam about our winery and vineyard in the...
Try Ember & Vine’s Grilled Beet Salad, Made with 2017 Prelude Estate Rosé
, Events & Tastings, Recipe, 2017 Prelude Estate Rosé of Pinot Noir, 2017 Prelude Rosé, Ember and Vine, Mary Cressler, Recipe, Rose, Sean Martin, Vindulge, Wine Blogger, Wine Writer, 0It’s no secret that we’re huge fans of the wine and wood-fired power duo of Mary Cressler and Sean...
Bells Up’s Seyval Blanc Planting Featured in June 2018 Issue of Oregon Wine Press
, Feature Stories & Reviews, Vineyard, #bellsupmoment, Bells Up Vineyard, Estate Vineyard, feature story, Girardet, Oregon Wine Press, Seyval Blanc, Tamara Belgard, Vineyard, Vineyard Planting, Wine Blogger, Wine Writer, 0Although it’s not ready for commercial sale, we were delighted that wine writer Tamara Belgard featured our planting of...
See What You Missed at Bells Up’s First Winemaker Dinner with Ember and Vine
, Events & Tastings, #bellsupmoment, Ember and Vine, Winemaker Dinner, 0We started talking about doing a winemaker dinner with pairings from wood-fired food masters Ember and Vine (also known...
At long last, our first Estate Wine—2017 Prelude Rosé of Pinot Noir—is in the bottle!
, Harvest, In memory of, New Releases, Vineyard, #bellsupmoment, 2017 Prelude Rosé, Carol Holloran Day, Daniel George Miller, Elizabeth "Eli" Kessler Mitchell, Ian Patrick Kennington, James Elliott Muse, Jill Ann Ellis, Kelly Lynn Armstrong Palmer, Lillian Jewel Batt, Michelle J. Vosmeier, Morrison Bockenstette Gee, Nancy Lusk Jacobs, Pamela FitzGerald Campbell, Rosé of Pinot Noir, Samuel "Sammy" Aaron Harley, Tammy Lynn Greenwald, Troy Adam Day, Wine Release, 0To say we’re excited would be the understatement of the year. After five long years—first clearing the property in...
Our Pinot Blanc is back! 2017 Rhapsody is now available.
, New Releases, Pinot Blanc, Rhapsody, Wine Bottling, 0We are delighted to have Pinot Blanc back in our wine line-up with the 2017 Rhapsody. Sourced from Bieze...
Introducing 2016 Candide Nemarniki Vineyard Reserve Pinot Noir, Our New Fanfare Club Exclusive Release
, Growers, Reviews, #bellsupmoment, 2016 Candide, Exclusive Release, Fanfare Club, Nemarniki Vineyard, Pinot Noir, Reserve Pinot Noir, 0As mentioned before, we started sourcing Pommard and Wadenswil heritage clones of Pinot Noir from Diane Nemarnik of Nemarniki Vineyard—who also...
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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).