We recently hosted Dave Adams and Sandi Everingham, hosts and producers of the Decanted Podcast which invites listeners to...
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James Melendez — who produces both written and filmed wine reviews on his site and social media outlets as...
Paul Gregutt, former full-time Oregon wine reviewer for Wine Enthusiast from 1998 to 2021 (who has reviewed our wines—including...
AdVINEture’s Allison and Chris Wallace paid us a visit during their recent trip to the Willamette Valley from their...
Prominent wine reviewer Dr. Michael Apstein—who curates his own wine review website “Apstein on Wine” as well as contributes...
Prolific wine reviewer and Level 2 Sommelier from the Court of Master Sommeliers Dr. Owen Bargreen, who interviewed Winemaker...
One of our favorite wine and travel writers, Caitlin Hodges, was again inspired to create a new recipe to...
Margot Sinclair Savell and her husband Dave Savell came down from the Seattle area to join us for a...
When Joe Wehinger, CEO of United Digital & Associates, publisher of Daily Ovation magazine, visited us over the summer,...
Award-winning wine writer and journalist Elizabeth Smith, who hails from the Napa/Sonoma region, recently paid us a visit as...
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.