Paul Gregutt, former full-time Oregon wine reviewer for Wine Enthusiast from 1998 to 2021 (who has reviewed our wines—including...
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Prominent wine reviewer Dr. Michael Apstein—who curates his own wine review website “Apstein on Wine” as well as contributes...
Scoring and ranking the best U.S. wineries to visit, Choice Wineries focuses on helping consumers — from newbies to...
For the fourth year, wine writer and reviewer Jeff Kralik, aka “The Drunken Cyclist,” conducted his annual Blind Tasting...
It was such fun to finally meet wine writers, reviewers and media producers Robin and Michael Renken of Crushed...
One of our favorite wine and travel writers, Caitlin Hodges, was again inspired to create a new recipe to...
Award-winning wine writer and journalist Elizabeth Smith, who hails from the Napa/Sonoma region, recently paid us a visit as...
An attorney and wine reviewer based in New York, Michael Chelus features a different wine daily six days a...
As we shared a couple of weeks ago, we were honored to be sought out by wine writer and...
Travel writer Kay Kingsman, based in Portland, included Bells Up in “Road Tripper’s Guide To The Portland Region,” a...
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.