Under the category of “better late than never,” we finally got the scores from the wines reviewed by Samantha...
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Wine writer and blogger Penny Sadler has been writing about wine and travel for over a decade. She’s chronicled...
Regional writer Aliya Hall filed a report for the travel and tourism website, Hippie In Heels, to help readers...
Based in Portland, wine experts and reviewers Michele Francisco and Matt Talbot produce Winerabble, an online resource covering all...
Located in the Midwest, wine reviewers, writers, and bloggers Melissa and Jeff Lawson curate and produce content for their...
Marissa Ooyevaar, who creates travel, wine, and lifestyle content across multiple channels as A Blonde Vintage, is a Willamette...
Taking a decidedly unpretentious and down-to-earth approach, Midwesterners Melissa and Jeff Lawson curate and produce content for their Drink...
Oregon Wine Press Editor-in-Chief Michele Francisco is one of our favorite local wine writers and reviewers. She’s a straight-shooter...
Great Northwest Wine’s review team — led by President and CEO Eric Degerman — recently sampled and posted their...
In the Willamette Valley this spring, April 14-15 (just in time for taxes!), our region got hit by an...
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).