It would be tremendously difficult to overstate the importance of Joe Henke, owner and winemaker at Cincinnati’s own Henke...
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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 secret is out. In 2020, we made a Cabernet Sauvignon. It was Dave’s first time touching that grape...
It’s been well established that we’re BIG FANS of BACON around here. Sara threw Dave a surprise BACON Dinner...
One of our favorite wine writers, Caitlin Hodges, who authors and curates the Sips N Tips website has done...
We are excited to be one of the featured wineries at the Chehalem Mountains Winegrowers Association’s (CMWA) second installment...
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).