AdVINEture’s Allison and Chris Wallace paid us a visit during their recent trip to the Willamette Valley from their...
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Prominent wine reviewer Dr. Michael Apstein—who curates his own wine review website “Apstein on Wine” as well as contributes...
The dynamic duo of married wine reviewers Nathan and Courtney Marton of Winery Reflections have been enthusiastic supporters and...
Wine writer and reviewer Anatoli Levine, who produces the Talk-A-Vino blog, has been collecting “Stories of Passion and Pinot”...
Margot Sinclair Savell and her husband Dave Savell came down from the Seattle area to join us for a...
When Joe Wehinger, CEO of United Digital & Associates, publisher of Daily Ovation magazine, visited us over the summer,...
The secret is out. In 2020, we made a Cabernet Sauvignon. It was Dave’s first time touching that grape...
Wine Reviewer The Drunken Cyclist Calls Bells Up’s Wines “Some of the Best in the Willamette Valley”
Earlier this year we shared a bottle of our 2020 Prelude Estate Rosé of Pinot Noir with prolific wine...
Iconic regional wine reviewers Eric Degerman and Andy Perdue of Great Northwest Wine have posted their review of our...
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).