It was a blast to sit down with Allison Levine earlier in this crazy pandemic year — back in...
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2019 Helios is “Fabulously Characterful and Bursting with Intense Youthful Energy,” says Winery Reflections
, Feature Stories & Reviews, Reviews, 2019 Helios Seyval Blanc, Helios, Helios Seyval Blanc, Nathan and Courtney Marton, Seyval Blanc, Wine Blogger, Wine Review, Wine Reviewer, Wine Writer, Winery Reflections, 0When Winery Reflections’ Nathan and Courtney Marton visited us last year, they were particularly eager to try our estate...
Winecountry.com Recommends Bells Up as a Can’t Miss in the Willamette Valley
, Feature Stories & Reviews, Adventures of a Carry-On, Bells Up Winery, Feature Article, feature story, French Horn, Helios Seyval Blanc, Penny Sadler, Seyval Blanc, Wine Blogger, Wine Writer, Winecountry.com, 0To our tremendous surprise, we were included in a recent Winecountry.com article by travel and wine writer Penny Sadler,...
Bells Up Featured by Great Northwest Wine
, Feature Stories & Reviews, Reviews, Buy Wine, Candide, Ellen Landis, Ellen On Wine, Feature Article, Feature Interview, feature story, Firebird, Great Northwest Wine, Helios, Our Story, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir, Prelude, Rhapsody, Rosé of Pinot Noir, Seyval Blanc, Syrah, Titan, Villanelle, Wine Blogger, Wine Feature, Wine Maker, Wine Review, Wine Writer, 0We were gratified to finally meet the incomparable Ellen Landis — certified sommelier, wine writer, and international wine judge...
Vino-Sphere Names Bells Up’s 2018 Helios Seyval Blanc A Top Wine of 2019
, Feature Stories & Reviews, Reviews, 2018 Helios, Dave Nershi, Dave Specter, Estate Seyval Blanc, feature story, Reviews, Sara Specter, Seyval Blanc, Top Wines of 2019, Vino-Sphere, Wine Blogger, Wine Review, Wine Reviewer, Wine Writer, Winemaker, 0It was a delight to host Dave Nershi, publisher, writer and reviewer of Vino-Sphere, here last spring. He enjoyed...
Praise for Bells Up’s Wines, Tasting Experience from Wine Writer Cori Solomon
, Feature Stories & Reviews, Reviews, 2017 Candide, 2018 Helios Seyval Blanc, Cori Solomon, Firebird Syrah, Nemarniki Vineyard, Prelude Rosé, Seyval Blanc, The Written Palette, Titan Pinot Noir, Wine Blogger, Wine Review, Wine Reviewer, Wine Writer, 0Wine writer and blogger Cori Solomon of The Written Palette (pictured above with Winemaker Dave in our Seyval Blanc...
2018 Helios “A Glass of Sunshine,” says Drink In Nature
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Helios Seyval Blanc Featured by Understanding Wine With Austin Beeman in New Video
, Feature Stories & Reviews, 2018 Helios, 2018 Helios Seyval Blanc, Austin Beeman, Bells Up Estate, Bells Up Vineyard, Dave Specter, feature story, Feature Video, Seyval Blanc, Video, Vineyard, Vineyard Planting, 0Austin Beeman, wine writer, podcaster, videographer and VP of Marketing for Cutting Edge Selections — the Cincinnati area’s premier...
Bells Up Tasting Experience, Wines Reviewed by Sips N Tips
, Feature Stories & Reviews, Reviews, 2016 Titan, 2016 Titan Pinot Noir, 2017 Candide, 2017 Firebird, 2017 Firebird Syrah, 2018 Helios, 2018 Helios Seyval Blanc, 2018 Prelude Estate Rosé of Pinot Noir, 2018 Rhapsody, 2018 Rhapsody Pinot Blanc, Caitlin Hodges, Estate Seyval Blanc, Helios Seyval Blanc, Prelude, Prelude Rosé, Seyval Blanc, Sips N Tips, Wine Blogger, Wine Review, Wine Reviewer, Wine Writer, 0Caitlin Hodges, the wine writer who pens the Sips N Tips blog, visited us in May as part of...
Talk-A-Vino Interviews Bells Up’s Dave Specter in Feature Story
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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 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.









