Just in time for the Holiday Shopping Season, publisher and podcaster Lisa Smith welcomed Winemaker Dave back for a...
Tag Archive for: Rosé of Pinot Noir
Under the category of “better late than never,” we finally got the scores from the wines reviewed by Samantha...
Wine reviewers, writers, and bloggers Melissa and Jeff Lawson curate and produce content for their Drink The Bottles website....
Once again, we submitted a bottle of our “Brosé” (2021 Prelude Estate Rosé of Pinot Noir) to Houston-based wine...
Certified sommelier, wine writer, and international wine judge Ellen Landis again agreed to review three of our new releases...
AdVINEture’s Allison and Chris Wallace paid us a visit during their recent trip to the Willamette Valley from their...
Scoring and ranking the best U.S. wineries to visit, Choice Wineries focuses on helping consumers — from newbies to...
As we shared a couple of weeks ago, we were honored to be sought out by wine writer and...
It was a true highlight of our summer to be visited by wine writer and reviewer Jeff Kralik, aka...
Wine Reviewer The Drunken Cyclist Calls Bells Up’s Wines “Some of the Best in the Willamette Valley”
Earlier this year we shared a bottle of our 2020 Prelude Estate Rosé of Pinot Noir with prolific wine...
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, Rosé, Pinot Blanc, Seyval Blanc, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Schioppettino with grapes sourced from our estate vineyard and from Summit View Vineyard in Eastern Oregon.