The Written Palette’s Cori Solomon — a Los Angeles-based wine writer who visited us a few years ago —...
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Although we are sadly sold out of it, we were honored that Tamara Belgard Turner included our Joy Estate...
The Willamette Valley is increasingly becoming known for its truffles as much as for its Pinot Noir. The region...
Honest to goodness, the hardest working wine, food, travel, and lifestyle blogger and writer Marlynn Schotland — the force...
Willamette Living magazine’s Best of the Valley 2023 issue included a multi-page spread featuring Newberg. Written by Elaine Rea,...
Under the category of “better late than never,” we finally got the scores from the wines reviewed by Samantha...
Travel writer MaryRose Denton recently filed an article with Travel Awaits, an online publication focused on travelers aged 50+....
During harvest, award-winning wine writer and journalist Elizabeth Smith paid us a return visit. She previously covered us for...
This past August we had a delightful time hosting wife-and-husband wine and travel writers Pam and Gary Baker. The...
Regional writer Aliya Hall filed a report for the travel and tourism website, Hippie In Heels, to help readers...
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).