During our virtual tasting with the International Food Wine and Travel Writers Association (IFWTWA), we reconnected with Andy Harris....
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Urban Bliss Life Calls Bells Up “A Must Stop” in the Willamette Valley
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Bells Up’s Dave Specter Featured on KOIN Wine Wednesday Morning Show
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Play Stay Eat Calls Bells Up “Charming” and “Friendly”
, Feature Stories & Reviews, 2022 Prelude, Bells Up Winery, Dave Specter, David Specter, Firebird Syrah, Play Stay Eat, PlayStayEat.com, Prelude Estate Rosé, Sara Specter, Scott Kendall, Titan Pinot Noir, Wine Blogger, Wine Review, Wine Reviewer, Wine Writer, Wine Writers, 0Freelance travel writer, photographer, and videographer Scott Kendall hangs his hat in The Woodlands, Texas — when he’s not...
Bites, Flights and Sights Files Two Features on Bells Up
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Jeff Kralik, aka The Drunken Cyclist, Named 2019 Jupiter Pinot Noir “Red Wine of the Year”
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Jancis Robinson Scores for Bells Up Wines Released
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Big Blend Radio Interviews Dave & Sara, Calls Wines “Special & Exquisite”
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Fodor’s Oregon Says Bells Up Tastings “Like Sitting Down With Old Friends”
, Feature Stories & Reviews, #bellsupmoment, Dave Specter, David Specter, feature story, Fodor's Travel, French Horn, Margot Bigg, Our Story, Review, Reviews, Sara Specter, Travel Writer, Wine Writer, 0Fodor’s Travel, publishers of both printed books and online travel guides, recently released their 2023 Oregon guidebook. Writer Margot...
Travel Awaits Calls Bells Up an “Amazing Boutique Winemaker Worth A Visit”
, Feature Stories & Reviews, #bellsupmoment, Bells Up Story, Bells Up Vineyard, Bells Up Winery, Dave Specter, David Specter, feature story, MaryRose Denton, Travel Awaits, Travel Writer, Wine Blogger, Wine Tasting, Wine Writer, 0Travel writer MaryRose Denton recently filed an article with Travel Awaits, an online publication focused on travelers aged 50+....
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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).