Wine and travel writer Caitlin Hodges, who authors and curates the Sips N Tips website, reviewed our 2019 Rhapsody...
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International fine wine writer, critic, judge and curator L.M. Archer has published her notes on three of Bells Up’s...
It’s safe to say that if you’re looking to submerge yourself in testosterone, you won’t want to miss this...
Dr. Owen Bargreen, wine reviewer and Level 2 Sommelier from the Court of Master Sommeliers (seen above with Winemaker...
When Winery Reflections’ Nathan and Courtney Marton visited us last year, they were particularly eager to try our estate...
Wine writer Allison Levine of Please the Palate and the Napa Valley Register recently published the article, “The Wonderful...
To our tremendous surprise, we were included in a recent Winecountry.com article by travel and wine writer Penny Sadler,...
We were extremely fortunate to host a small group of highly regarded wine and travel writers here last August,...
Sam Slaughter (pictured above with winemaker Dave), food and drink editor for The Manual — an e-magazine targeted to...
Caitlin Hodges, the wine writer who pens the Sips N Tips blog, visited us in May as part 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.