Sunday, April 23, 2017 | 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Members of Bells Up Winery’s Fanfare Club are invited to an exclusive,...
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Thursday, April 27, 2017 | 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Exclusively for our peers in the wine, retail and hospitality...
On Tuesday, April 11, 2017 Bells Up Winery will host the Chehalem Valley Chamber of Commerce‘s monthly “Wine on...
All the ferments for the 2016 pinot noirs (777, 115, Pommard and Wadenswil) wrapped up in mid-October, so Bells Up...
While Dave and Dan were off on their excellent adventure, picking up the Walla Walla Valley AVA Syrah grapes...
Thinking of spending a post-Thanksgiving weekend in Oregon’s Willamette Valley wine country? We are thrilled to be included on...
This year, when Bells Up winemaker Dave made the trip from Newberg to Milton-Freewater, Oregon, to pick up our...
Dave had a great time hanging out with KGW-TV’s Portland Today show team on Friday, November 18 in advance...
The 2015 Prelude Rosé of Pinot Noir may have sold out on October 1, 2016, but fear not—the 2016...
A personal post from Sara On October 6, 2001—on a Devou Park hilltop in Covington, Kentucky overlooking Cincinnati, Ohio—Dave...
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.