Celebration of Harvest Weekend
Saturday October 10

In addition to the Celebration of Harvest festival on Saturday, individual wineries spare no effort to welcome, entertain and even educate you - there are winemakers dinners, winery tours, library wine tastings and sales, barrel tastings, special appetizers and live music in the tasting rooms, and smaller wineries open to the public.

Make a weekend of it.

10am - 5pm Lafond Open House
We will be showcasing our new releases alongside artisan cheeses, fresh breads, and sweet dessert nibbles. There will be live music and our famous Taco stand from start to finish.
 
10am - 5pm Bridlewood Large Mission-style winery majestically sitting on 105 acres, surrounded by vineyards, trees, lakes, gardens, horses and picnic areas. Many award-winning wines. Come for the wine, stay for the experience.
10am - 5pm Cambria Winemaking begins on the vine. Visit our private, family-owned estate winery established in 1986 and experience the flavors of the Santa Maria Bench. Visa holders are offered light appetizers and 10% off on all purchases
10am - 6pm Coquelicot Coquelicot’s sustainable farming and gentle meticulous winemaking techniques converge to produce limited production wines that are a true celebration of life.
10am - 8pm Costa de Oro An estate winery producing Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from our Gold Coast Vineyard. We strive to produce unique expressions of the vineyard, balancing elegance and power.
Visa holders are offered a 15% discount on all wine purchases.
10am - 5pm Fess Parker A family owned and operated winery producing ultra-premium, award-winning wines including Syrah, Viognier Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and White Riesling. Wine Club Member for the Day! Enjoy complementary tasting, 20% discount on wine purchases & 15% discount on retail purchases.
10am - 5pm Gainey Vineyard For over 20 years the Gainey family has produced ultrapremium wines from the Santa Ynez Valley and Santa Rita Hills.
10am - 5pm Koehler Koehler Winery's friendly and inviting tasting room is open daily from 10 am to 5 pm. Weather permitting, guests may also partake of a sip of wine on the spectacularly beautiful grounds, surrounded by the Koehler family's own remarkable menagerie of unusual animals and exotic birds.
10am - 5pm Roblar Roblar Winery is located in the beautiful Santa Ynez Valley. The rustic tasting room and winery are set on a beautiful 38 acre vineyard. Roblar Winery is an experience. The entire facility was designed to reflect the owners’ passion for quality living.
Visa holders receive 10% off all purchases.
10am - 5pm Royal Oaks

One of the Valley's best kept secrets. A boutique winery known for its handcrafted wines at reasonable prices, we offer wines for every palate. The wines are elegant and complex.
Visa holders receive 10% off all purchases.

10am - 5pm Santa Barbara Winery

The county's oldest winery (est. in 1962) is just two blocks away from the beach in Santa Barbara. A wide variety of award wining wines from our Lafond Vineyard in Sta Rita Hills.

10am - 5pm Tres Hermanas Specializing in small-lot Syrah, Viognier, Roussanne, Sauvignon Blanc, Riesling, Muscat Canelli, Refosco and Cuvées.
10am - 4pm Zaca Mesa An estate winery dedicated to growing and handcrafting Rhône varieties (Syrah, Viognier, Roussanne and Grenache) offering a unique experience to share.
10.30am - 4pm Babcock New Release Tasting
Enjoy 8 to 10 wines including the 2008 Grand Cuvee Pinot Noir. Come check out our monthly special.
 
10.30am - 5.30pm Curtis Winery Exclusively committed to the crafting of Rhône-style wines. We are inspired by the extraordinary terrain of Santa Barbara County’s Santa Ynez Valley, which is today recognized as one of the world’s leading appellations for Rhône varietals. Visa holders are offered a 25% discount on all Curtis wines.
10.30am - 5.00pm Kenneth Volk Vineyards Open House
Start your day out at Kenneth Volk Vineyards enjoying the largest portfolio of wines in Santa Barbara County. Complimentary hors d'oeuvres, a beautiful setting and special prices on selected wines.
11am - 4pm Andrew Murray Vineyards Annual Harvest Open House
Join us at our winery to celebrate harvest and taste our new releases. We will be providing light hors d'oeuvres and at least 10 different wines to sample. We will have live music. We hope you can join us.
 
11am - 8pm Baehner-Fournier The Eastern Santa Ynez Valley is hot! Bordeaux varietals love it and we grow three of them on our estate...Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot and Merlot. We blend them into our delicious V3, the only Bordeaux blend of its type in the Valley. At the Wandering Dog Wine Bar, Solvang.
11am - 5pm Buttonwood Farm Sauvignon Blanc, Sustainable, Trevin, Betty, Garden, Cabernet Franc, Fun, Bret, Marsanne, Seyburn, Art, Syrah, Music, Karen, Zingy, Imbibers Club, Cabernet Sauvignon.
11am - 6.30pm Carina Cellars Syrah, Viognier, and Cabernet produced in small lots with an emphasis on vineyard designated wines. Library wine tasting and oil and vinegar tastings.
11am - 7pm Carr Although the focus is on Pinot Noir, the vast microclimates of Santa Barbara County allow the winery to produce several other great wines, including Pinot Gris, Syrah and Cabernet Franc.
Visa holders enjoy a 10% discount on purchases.
11am - 6.30pm Casa Cassara Taste our great handmade Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir. Plus, experience Syrah, Chardonnay and vineyard-designated limited-release wines. Visa holders enjoy a fruit & cheese buffet and 15% discount on purchases.
11am - 4.30pm Cold Heaven Cellars Open House  
11am - 6pm Core “The core of every wine begins in the vineyard” Husband and wife team Dave and Becky Corey’s focus is working with Rhone varietals from the Alta Mesa vineyard, which they farm.
Visa holders are offered a 5% discount on all wine purchases.
11am - 5pm Consilience Library Tasting
We are pouring a selection of library wines in addition to our regular flight. These wines are limited so stop by for a taste before they are gone forever!
 
11am - 5pm Cottonwood Canyon Cave Tours
Come visit our wine caves! Guided cave tours throughout Festival weekend – tours at 11:00, 1:00 and 3:00.
 
11am - 6pm Daniel Gehrs Since our start in 1990, our focus has remained the same - creating small lots of high quality wines, offered at reasonable prices. White wines include Chenin Blanc and Viognier; the red wine focus is on Pinot Noir and Cabernet Sauvignon.
11am - 4pm Demetria A family-owned winery focused on premium-quality Burgundy and Rhone-style wines using biodynamic farming methods and handcrafted winemaking techniques, resulting very-limited quantities of wine. Visa holders enjoy a special preview tasting of the soon-to-be released 2006 Cuvee Constantine and 2006 Syrah, and the newly released 2006 Cuvee Sandra Pinot Noir.
11am - 5pm Dierberg

Star Lane

This ideal combination of climate, aspect, soil and clonal material results in truly distinctive Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wines. The exceptional planning, planting and farming of the Dierberg Vineyard is a key factor to the growing reputation of the vineyard for world-class Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wines.
11am - 4pm Fiddlehead Cellars Head Fiddle, Kathy Joseph, specializes in Sauvignon Blanc from the eastern part of Santa Ynez Valley and Pinot Noir from her Fiddlestix vineyard in Sta. Rita Hills.
11am - 4pm Foxen Vineyard Open House
Join us at the Foxen 7200 'shack' and at the new FOXEN winery for light hors d'oeuvres and special library wines.
11am - 4pm Huber Cellars Open House Drive in through our estate Sta. Rita Hills Vineyard to our home tasting bar for a Festival Open House! We’re not normally open to the public, but will be pouring our full line up of estate Chardonnays, Pinot Noirs and Dornfelder. Festival weekend will be our official release of our new “Hafen” Dornfelder dessert wine! Visa holders are offered 15% discount on all estate wines except Charlotte's Reserve and Hafen.
11am - 5pm Jaffurs Harvest Tasting in the Winery
Harvest will be in full swing at Jaffurs. Come join the fun. Taste the new wines. Help us stem, sort, press, or stomp, depending on what grapes are where. This is peak winemaking time for us. Stand elbow-to-elbow with us as the magic unfolds.
11am - 3pm La Vie La Vie Vineyards produces stylized, long aging Pinot Noirs and other wines such as Chardonnay, Riesling, Viognier and Syrah. Special pricing and library wines will be highlighted during the passport weekend.
11am - 4pm Ken Brown Wines With the benefit of nearly 30 years experience in this region, Ken’s goal in founding Ken Brown Wines is to focus on exceptional Pinot Noir from leading vineyards in Santa Rita Hills and several other select locations in the county. The line-up also includes limited bottlings of Chardonnay and Syrah. Visa holders will also be able to taste a pair of older library wines.
11am - 6pm Lucas & Lewellen The vineyards of Lucas & Lewellen are located in the three principal wine grape growing regions of Santa Barbara County: the Santa Maria Valley, the Los Alamos Valley, and the Santa Ynez Valley. From the finest estate grown grapes come the finest wines. Visit us to taste our premium handcrafted Santa Barbara County wines.
Visa holders are offered a 10% discount on any non-sale wine purchase.
11am - 6pm Mandolina Known for approachable style and excellent quality at reasonable prices, Mandolina produces estate-grown Italian varietals including Pinot Grigio, Barbera, Nebbiolo, Moscato, Sangiovese, and ever popular Super-Tuscan blends of Bordeaux and Italian varietals.
Visa holders are offered a 10% discount on all non-sale wines.
11am - 5pm Melville In celebration of harvest here in the Sta. Rita Hills, Melville
is preparing a sumptuous weekend of food and wine, with extended tasting room hours and light hors d’oeuvres.
No reservations required.
 
11am - 4pm Municipal Winemakers Our wines are influenced by the personality and elegance of the old-world, together with a freshness and vibrancy of modern styles.
11am - 4pm NADIA Unique in its 3,200' high desert elevation, our mountain terroir offers diverse growing conditions suitable for cultivating a wide array of Bordeauxs and Rhóne varietals.
11am - 5pm Oreana Winery Just two blocks from the beach and two blocks from State Street in Santa Barbara, winemaker Christian Garvin produces micro-batches of Pinot Noir, Syrah, Malbec and eclectic blends. Visa holders are offered 20% discount on wine purchases.
11am - 6pm Presidio Producing Pinot Noir, Syrah and Chardonnay from their cool climate estate vineyard west of Santa Rita Hills.
11am - 4pm Rideau We invite you to visit our charming Tasting Room and Winery for the most incredible wine tasting experience. When you enter the Old Adobe Tasting Room, you will feel as though you have stepped back in time to a place that has captured the feel of New Orleans and our owner's Creole heritage.
Visa holders are offered live music and complimentary tapas.
11am - 4pm Riverbench Planted in 1973, Riverbench is one of Santa Maria Valley's first vineyards. The estate and reserve Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wines are made in limited quantities and are available exclusively at their Tasting Room.
11am - 4pm Roblar Roblar Winery is located in the beautiful Santa Ynez Valley. The rustic tasting room and winery are set on a beautiful 38 acre vineyard. Roblar Winery is an experience. The entire facility was designed to reflect the owners’ passion for quality living.
Visa holders receive 10% off all purchases.
11am - 5pm Sanford

Established in 1981, Sanford Winery is located in Sta Rita Hills. Focused excellence in Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Visitors are welcome to our new tasting room next to the beautiful stone and adobe winery and estate vineyards.
Visa holders receive 15% off all wine purchases.

11am - 5pm Scott Cellars

Scott Cellars produces small lots of handcrafted Pinot Gris, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Syrah and Zinfandel/Syrah blend sold exclusively from its tasting room.
A vertical tasting of our Pinot Noirs. Special cheese and chocolate pairings.

11am - 5pm Silver

Crafting superior Rhône, Italian, Burgundian and Bordelaise varietals from local vineyards carefully chosen for the production of terroir driven wines.
At Wine Country in Los Olivos.

11am - 7pm Summerland

Summerland wines are approachable in both price and style, exhibiting excellent varietal character with a Central Coast flavor profile that is suitable to a wide variety of foods. The wines of the Central Coast Collection are not just winning awards, but are winning friends one glass at a time. Visa holders are offered a 10% discount on all wine purchases.

noon - 4pm Alere With roots firmly planted in the soils of Santa Barbara County's northernmost reaches, the vines are nourished by nature and tended by three generations. At the Tasting Room in Terravant in Buellton.
noon - 4pm The Brander Vineyard Brander Vineyard Traditional BBQ
Please come celebrate Harvest at Brander Vineyard and enjoy a traditional Brander BBQ. Sit back in our courtyard and listen to the tunes of local guitarist Michel Shelton while sampling our newly released wines.
 
noon - 3pm Coquelicot Live Music
Join us for wine tasting and live music at our tasting room in downtown Los Olivos.
 
5.30pm

Melville

Ninth Annual Harvest BBQ
An evening of Santa Maria style barbeque, live music and bountiful hors d’oeuvres to be complimented with library wines, current releases, and barrel samples of our 2008 small lot collection pinot noirs (Carrie’s and Terraces).
Space is limited. Reservations are necessary.

 
6pm Kenneth Volk Vineyards BBQ & Wine
Join us for a Santa Maria Style tri-tip and chicken BBQ with a gourmet flair paired with an array of Kenneth Volk Vineyards wines.
 
6pm Lucas & Lewellen Winemaker Dinner
A fabulous evening of wine and food at the Santa Ynez Inn! Join winemaker Megan McGrath Gates and savor new Lucas & Lewellen and Mandolina wine releases and reserve selections paired to an exquisite Santa Ynez Inn menu. Reservations are limited. Phone 805.688.5588 for details and availability.
 
6 - 8pm Lucas & Lewellen Wine & Cheese Pairing
Join us after the festival back at the Lucas & Lewellen Tasting Room in Solvang for a Harvest Festival Weekend Wine and Cheese Pairing, featuring wines of Lucas & Lewellen paired with French and Italian cheeses from C'est Cheese in Santa Barbara, live music, and an olive tasting by La Bella Olives.
 
6 - 8pm Mandolina An Italian Wine & Cheese Pairing
Join us after the festival at the Mandolina Tasting Room in Solvang for a taste of "la dolce vita", at our Italian Wine & Cheese Pairing. Live music and authentic Italian cheeses from Santa Barbara's C'est Cheese.