During harvest, award-winning wine writer and journalist Elizabeth Smith paid us a return visit. She previously covered us for...
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Marissa Ooyevaar, who creates travel, wine, and lifestyle content across multiple channels as A Blonde Vintage, is a Willamette...
Southern California-based wine reviewers Nathan and Courtney Marton (who visited us pre-Covid) share their impressions of different vintages on...
Wine reviewers, writers, and bloggers Melissa and Jeff Lawson curate and produce content for their Drink The Bottles website....
Once again, we submitted a bottle of our “Brosé” (2021 Prelude Estate Rosé of Pinot Noir) to Houston-based wine...
Certified sommelier, wine writer, and international wine judge Ellen Landis again agreed to review three of our new releases...
We were again delighted to be one of the featured wineries at the Chehalem Mountains Winegrowers Association’s (CMWA) third...
Winerabble’s Michele Francisco and Matt Talbot recently reviewed our 2021 Prelude Estate Rosé of Pinot Noir on their site...
We recently hosted Dave Adams and Sandi Everingham, hosts and producers of the Decanted Podcast which invites listeners to...
Prolific wine reviewer and Level 2 Sommelier from the Court of Master Sommeliers Dr. Owen Bargreen, who interviewed Winemaker...
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).