Even in a year filled with remarkable travel and tasting experiences, it meant a great deal to see Bells...
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Most wine industry insiders and owners bring wine when they visit other wineries. At Bells Up, we bring pie....
At Bells Up Winery, we believe every bottle has a story. For wine writer and storyteller Cori Solomon, that’s...
Money Honey Sara graduated from Centre College — a teensy, private, liberal arts school in the middle of Kentucky...
Powerhouse wine reviewers Nathan and Courtney Marton of Winery Reflections recently posted a review of our 2021 New World...
Over the past few years, James Melendez (aka James The Wine Guy) has reviewed many of our wines, following...
James Melendez—who reviews wines as James The Wine Guy—has sampled thousands of wines over nearly two decades. A former...
In June 2025, the political became personal. Our long-time vineyard manager, Moises Sotelo of Novo Start Vineyard Service was...
Wine Time Fridays is a weekly wine podcast hosted by Shelley Webb and Phil Anderson, a couple who have...
We rarely submit our wines for scoring by large publications. As a small, micro-boutique winery, most of the wines...
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.