When we first visited Newberg back in 2008, our primary goal was to taste some world-class Pinot Noir. What...
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Last summer Dave hosted Honi Olmedo and Kat Chen (pictured at right) and their guests separately on two different...
It’s always an absolute delight to hear what Nathan and Courtney Marton of Winery Reflections have to say about...
Taste Newberg — the official online travel resource and Destination Marketing Organization (DMO) for Newberg, Oregon — recently featured...
Ellen Landis — certified sommelier, wine writer, and international wine judge — recently reviewed three of our newest releases...
Dr. Owen Bargreen — Level 2 Sommelier from the Court of Master Sommeliers — has graciously reviewed our wines...
Our three 2018 Pinot Noirs — Titan, Candide, and Villanelle — have been reviewed by Dr. Owen Bargreen, wine...
Wine writers, reviewers, spouses and oeno-academics Nathan and Courtney Marton of Winery Reflections (who visited us back in 2019)...
Wine and travel writer Caitlin Hodges, who authors and curates the Sips N Tips website, reviewed our 2019 Rhapsody...
As an offshoot of the attention we’ve been blessed to receive from Tony Kornheiser (pictured below), sportswriter for The...
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.