Travel writer Kay Kingsman, based in Portland, included Bells Up in “Road Tripper’s Guide To The Portland Region,” a...
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Several years ago we first invited acclaimed wine writer L.M. Archer to sample our wines in person, which she...
Although we might have been called “crazy” by the (very old) guard of the Willamette Valley for planting a...
Unbeknownst to us, we recently hosted wine and travel writer Maria Ignacia Morel of The Daily Drip on her...
Earlier this spring we were fortunate to have been paid a three-hour visit by local wine writer and developer...
When we first visited Newberg back in 2008, our primary goal was to taste some world-class Pinot Noir. What...
Last summer Dave hosted Honi Olmedo and Kat Chen (pictured at right) and their guests separately on two different...
Taste Newberg — the official online travel resource and Destination Marketing Organization (DMO) for Newberg, Oregon — recently featured...
As an offshoot of the attention we’ve been blessed to receive from Tony Kornheiser (pictured below), sportswriter for The...
It’s safe to say that if you’re looking to submerge yourself in testosterone, you won’t want to miss this...
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.