Rusty Gaffney, the Prince of Pinot (who visited us last year) popped in for a surprise taste-through of our...
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Urban Bliss Life blogger-photographer-social media influencer extraordinare Marlynn Jayme Schotland knows wine and food (which is one of the...
They threw the book at us. Well, at least Atlanta-based author Kevin J. Fay did. When Kevin visited us...
Winerabble dropped an amazing review of Bells Up’s 2014 Titan Pinot Noir on their site last week, praising both our wines...
Bells Up winemaker Dave traveled to Eugene on Wednesday, May 17, 2017 to pour wine at 16 Tons Taphouse...
Wine writer and reviewer Viki Eierdam—who blogs on Savor, Sip and Sojourn—recently paid us a visit and tasted through...
Journalist Barb Randall of Pamplin Media Group’s Lake Oswego Review made a return trip to visit us in April...
It’s no secret that Dave and Sara have enjoyed a long-standing friendship with Kristin and Curt Fintel, owners of Chehalem Ridge...
It certainly pays to have dear friends in high places. Thanks to George Fox University marketing students Grace, Gaby...
We were tickled this week to discover a lovely feature about our dear friends, Mike and Julie Slater of...
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.