There’s something especially meaningful about reconnecting with someone who has followed your journey from the early days. In January,...
Tag Archive for: #bellsupmoment
As we raise our glasses to the start of a wonderful new wine year, we’re thrilled to share some...
Money Honey Sara graduated from Centre College — a teensy, private, liberal arts school in the middle of Kentucky...
We rarely submit our wines for scoring by large publications. As a small, micro-boutique winery, most of the wines...
George Moore is an entrepreneur with a talent for connecting with people and sourcing premium grapes. Moore and his...
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...
Husband-and-wife writers John and Linda Compisi cover food, drink, and travel on their blog, Bites, Flights and Sights. Passionate...
Fodor’s Travel, publishers of both printed books and online travel guides, recently released their 2023 Oregon guidebook. Writer Margot...
Travel writer MaryRose Denton recently filed an article with Travel Awaits, an online publication focused on travelers aged 50+....
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.