The laid-back wine region is more attractive ... the historic town of Santa Ynez; the tony Los Olivos (brimming with tasting rooms), the burgeoning towns of Ballard and Buellton, and Los Alamos ...

The Santa Barbara Urban Wine Trail is primarily made up of two clusters of tasting rooms, both just a 10-minute walk apart. In these compact groups, established wineries sit alongside tasting ...

Santa Barbara County's Santa Ynez Valley is leading the way in the wine region's sustainability movement with the best organic, biodynamic, and minimal intervention wineries. Once a rural ranching ...

The Santa Ynez Valley covers six distinct regions ... for up to four hours. Poolside movies, wine tasting with local winemakers, DIY olive oil infusions and a workshop focused on preservation ...

Gomez, who has been making wine in her native Santa Ynez Valley since 2010, says, “Every tasting room around here is going to have Pinot and chardonnay. We won’t have any of that because we ...

the Casa Dumetz tasting room is the perfect spot to begin your exploration of Santa Ynez wine culture. Owner Sonja Magdevski is a winemaker herself, producing under her own Casa Dumetz ...

for the wine-seekers, the list here is pleasantly fleshed out with local bottles, too.) This locals’ favorite butcher shop and restaurant serves some of the finest sandwiches in the Santa Ynez ...

Before the classic 2004 film “Sideways” made the Santa Ynez Valley the Central Coast ... Prep for your day of wine tasting with brunch, which features classics such as bananas Foster French ...

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Au Bon Climat put Santa Barbara County on the global wine map, thanks to founder Jim Clendenen’s pursuit of balanced wines and relentless proselytizing until his 2021 death. The El Paseo tasting room ...