Portland-based travel writer Margot Bigg has included us in yet another travel guide. We’re honored and thrilled to have...
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Big Blend Radio Features Dave Specter on Winemaker Insider Podcast
, Feature Stories & Reviews, Reviews, Big Blend Radio, Dave Specter, David Specter, Feature Video, Featured Winery, Lisa Smith, Podcast, Sara Specter, Video, Wine Blogger, Wine Review, Wine Tasting, Wine Writer, 0A couple of months ago, publisher and podcaster Lisa Smith invited Winemaker Dave for an interview on her Big...
Urban Bliss Life Calls Bells Up “A Must Stop” in the Willamette Valley
, Feature Stories & Reviews, Reviews, #bellsupmoment, Bells Up Story, Bells Up Vineyard, Candide Reserve Pinot Noir, Dave Specter, David Specter, Feature Article, feature story, Firebird Syrah, IFWTWA, Jupiter Pinot NOir, Marlynn Schotland, New World Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, Sara Specter, Titan Pinot Noir, Travel Writer, Urban Bliss Life, Virtual Tasting, Virtual Wine Tasting, Wine Blog, Wine Blogger, Wine Review, Wine Reviewer, Wine Reviews, Wine Tasting, Wine Writer, 0Honest to goodness, the hardest working wine, food, travel, and lifestyle blogger and writer Marlynn Schotland — the force...
Play Stay Eat Calls Bells Up “Charming” and “Friendly”
, Feature Stories & Reviews, 2022 Prelude, Bells Up Winery, Dave Specter, David Specter, Firebird Syrah, Play Stay Eat, PlayStayEat.com, Prelude Estate Rosé, Sara Specter, Scott Kendall, Titan Pinot Noir, Wine Blogger, Wine Review, Wine Reviewer, Wine Writer, Wine Writers, 0Freelance travel writer, photographer, and videographer Scott Kendall hangs his hat in The Woodlands, Texas — when he’s not...
Bites, Flights and Sights Files Two Features on Bells Up
, Feature Stories & Reviews, Reviews, #bellsupmoment, 2021 Helios, 2021 Helios Estate Seyval Blanc, 2021 Jupiter, 2021 Jupiter Estate Pinot Noir, Bells Up Story, Bells Up Winery, Dave Specter, David Specter, Estate Pinot Noir, Estate Seyval Blanc, Helios Seyval Blanc, John Compisi, Linda Compisi, Pinot Noir, Sara Specter, Seyval Blanc, Wine Blog, Wine Blogger, Wine Review, Wine Reviewer, Wine Reviewers, Wine Reviews, 0Husband-and-wife writers John and Linda Compisi cover food, drink, and travel on their blog, Bites, Flights and Sights. Passionate...
Big Blend Radio Interviews Dave & Sara, Calls Wines “Special & Exquisite”
, Feature Stories & Reviews, Reviews, All In Good Taste, Big Blend Radio, Dave Specter, David Specter, Feature Video, Featured Winery, Linda Kissam, Lisa Smith, Podcast, Sara Specter, Video, Wine Blogger, Wine Review, Wine Tasting, Wine Writer, 0Dave and Sara Specter were recently featured on the Big Blend Radio Podcast in a joint interview conducted by...
Fodor’s Oregon Says Bells Up Tastings “Like Sitting Down With Old Friends”
, Feature Stories & Reviews, #bellsupmoment, Dave Specter, David Specter, feature story, Fodor's Travel, French Horn, Margot Bigg, Our Story, Review, Reviews, Sara Specter, Travel Writer, Wine Writer, 0Fodor’s Travel, publishers of both printed books and online travel guides, recently released their 2023 Oregon guidebook. Writer Margot...
Weinnotes’ AJ Weinzettel Interviews Dave and Sara at Bells Up for Podcast Video
, Feature Stories & Reviews, #bellsupmoment, 2016 Titan Pinot Noir, A.J. Weinzettel, Bells Up Story, Dave Specter, feature story, Helios Seyval Blanc, Oregon Vino Country, Our Story, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir, Prelude, Prelude Rosé, Review, Reviews, Rhapsody Pinot Blanc, Sara Specter, Seyval Blanc, Weinnotes, Wine Blogger, Wine Review, Wine Reviewer, Wine Tasting, Wine Writer, 0Local wine writer, A.J. Weinzettel, produces the Weinnotes website and video podcast series. He paid us a visit a...
Bells Up Featured in Wine Business Article on Magic in the Mountains Event
, Bells Up News, Events & Tastings, 2021 Helios, 2021 Helios Estate Seyval Blanc, 2021 Prelude, 2021 Prelude Estate Rosé of Pinot Noir, Chehalem Mountains, Chehalem Mountains AVA, Chehalem Mountains Winegrowers Association, feature story, LM Archer, Magic in the Mountains, Sara Pearson Specter, Sara Specter, Wine Blogger, Wine Business, Wine Writer, WineBusiness.com, 0We were again delighted to be one of the featured wineries at the Chehalem Mountains Winegrowers Association’s (CMWA) third...
This holiday season instead of showing you our brass, we thought we’d show you our buns.
, Bells Up News, Cupcake, Dave Specter, Happy Holidays, Holiday 2021, Sara Pearson Specter, Sara Specter, 0It wouldn’t be a seasonal greeting from the Specters if there wasn’t a bad pun or two. So some things...
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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.