It’s no secret that Dave and Sara have enjoyed a long-standing friendship with Kristin and Curt Fintel, owners of Chehalem Ridge...
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On Wednesday, May 24, 2017—from 6:00–8:00 p.m.—Bells Up’s wines will be featured at 503 Uncorked’s “Wednesday Winery Night,” a weekly...
Bells Up will be the featured winery at 16 Tons Taphouse & Bottleshop on Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Winemaker Dave...
Bells Up will be the featured winery at Pulp & Circumstance (117 South College Street) at Downtown Newberg’s First Friday event on...
“I recently visited Bells Up and was completely blown away by this boutique winery. The wine, the hospitality, the...
Dave had a great time hanging out with KGW-TV’s Portland Today show team on Friday, November 18 in advance...
We were tickled to be quoted in an article on the Woodinville Wine Country website by Brittney Perreault (pictured above; photo...
NEWBERG, OR (October 5, 2016) — Bells Up Winery invites the public to Herald the Holiday season with a Wine...
Subterra – A Wine Cellar Restaurant has selected Newberg’s Bells Up Winery as the establishment’s featured winery of the...
*Okay, not really… But it TOTALLY felt like it when we had our first ever wine tasting tour group...
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.