If you’ve ever visited us, you know wine and music aren’t just themes at Bells Up — they’re the...
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Most wine industry insiders and owners bring wine when they visit other wineries. At Bells Up, we bring pie....
Portland-based travel writer Margot Bigg has included us in yet another travel guide. We’re honored and thrilled to have...
Travel writer Margot Bigg, who’s based in Portland, has featured us again! This time, she included a quote from...
It would be tremendously difficult to overstate the importance of Joe Henke, owner and winemaker at Cincinnati’s own Henke...
In the Willamette Valley this spring, April 14-15 (just in time for taxes!), our region got hit by an...
We were again delighted to be one of the featured wineries at the Chehalem Mountains Winegrowers Association’s (CMWA) third...
It wouldn’t be a seasonal greeting from the Specters if there wasn’t a bad pun or two. So some things...
One of our favorite wine and travel writers, Caitlin Hodges, was again inspired to create a new recipe to...
We’ve kept this quiet for MONTHS now, but in April this year we were contacted by Holly Brinkman, Head...
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.