On Friday, September 14, Bells Up was the featured winery at a sumptuous, five-course traditional Italian Winemaker’s Dinner prepared...
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We were incredibly touched to read the feature story by Viki Eierdam about our winery and vineyard in the...
One of our favorite wine connoisseurs, Wine Julia, invited winemaker Dave down to Eugene to pour wines in her...
We never know who’s going to recommend or feature us in various media outlets, so we were delighted to...
The Willamette Valley Wineries Association featured our 2017 Prelude Estate Rosé in their Spring Stories coverage last week. The...
Dave had a great time hanging out with Nick Hoogendam, a Newberg native who has recently launched Nick Hoogendamn’s...
The Willamette Valley Wineries Association (WVWA), one of many sources for wine and winery information in the region, featured...
The discriminating palates at Great Northwest Wine have sampled the 2015 Titan Pinot Noir and deemed it “Excellent.” We,...
We were astonished and delighted to discover that the 2015 Firebird Summit View Vineyard Syrah from the Milton-Freewater, Oregon,...
Winerabble dropped an amazing review of Bells Up’s 2014 Titan Pinot Noir on their site last week, praising both our wines...
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.