In our previous post, we shared how Melissa and Jeff Lawson—married wine reviewers who curate the Drink the Bottles...
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Under the category of “better late than never,” we finally got the scores from the wines reviewed by Samantha...
As part of Winemaker Dave’s approach to making white wines, he’s all-in on using bâtonnage as a technique for...
The latest Bells Up wine review from Winery Reflections’ Nathan and Courtney Marton (who visited us pre-Covid) features 2021...
We recently hosted Dave Adams and Sandi Everingham, hosts and producers of the Decanted Podcast which invites listeners to...
James Melendez — who produces both written and filmed wine reviews on his site and social media outlets as...
AdVINEture’s Allison and Chris Wallace paid us a visit during their recent trip to the Willamette Valley from their...
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...
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 15 years 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, Pinot Blanc, Rosé, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Seyval Blanc (the Willamette Valley’s first and only planting).