We can’t even begin to wrap our heads around this. Since May 11, the words “Bells Up Winery” and...
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Well, apparently it’s been a slow week for wine news, because it turns out that Eric Degerman, president and...
It happened again! As we posted earlier this week, sportswriter for The Washington Post, ESPN personality (PTI | Pardon...
Sportswriter for The Washington Post, ESPN personality (PTI | Pardon the Interruption), and Podcaster (The Tony Kornheiser Show), Tony...
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As explained in the previous post, Sara plotted and schemed with an enormous cast of characters to plan a...
Winemaker Dave had a milestone birthday back on September 27, 2018. So Sara put together a crazy day of...
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.