Santa Barbara County
Vintners' Festival Weekend
Winery Events - Sunday April 22

In addition to the Vintners' Festival main event Saturday afternoon, and the Vintners' Visa passport to visit 12 tasting rooms, many wineries are also offering special events - Winemaker Dinners, barrel tastings, library sales.

Alma Rosa

11pm - 4.30pm

Annual Day in the Country

Please join us for our Annual Day in the Country in the rustic ambience of our tasting room at Rancho El Jabalí. Enjoy wine, food and festivities featuring the acoustic Latin grooves of our musical friends 'Domingo Siete'. Artisan cheese and a variety of wine pairing treats will be served.

ampelos

from 11am

Earth Day Vineyard Tour

Celebrate Earth Day in the vineyard! We’ll be hosting a vineyard tour and lunch. Peter Work will take you through the vineyard and talk about bud break, shoots, clusters, training, organic, biodynamic and sustainable farming as we share a glass of rosé. After a short walk, we arrive at the oak tree where Jamie McGluck from Bell Street Farm will serve a three-course lunch – with ampelos wines of course!

Andrew Murray

11am - 4pm

Open House - New Release Celebration

Come by Andrew Murray Vineyards winery and celebrate our New Release with us! New Releases and Library wines for everyone to enjoy! Weekend Only Discounts! We look forward to seeing you! 5095 Zaca Station Road

Au Bon Climat

Qupé

Verdad

11am - 3pm

Open House

Come join us for our semi-annual open house. Our winery is only open to the public two days out of the year. We will be featuring library wines, current releases, and bargain wines. We will have wine from many of our labels being presented including Au Bon Climat, Qupe, Verdad and a few more.

Brander

1 - 4pm

Concert in the vineyard

Shoemaker Brothers, wine and light appetizers.

Buttonwood Farm

noon

Vineyard Hike

The second in our "Walk & Talk" series during Buttonwood Farm Earth Month, we'll take a walk through the hills and dales of our sustainably farmed vineyard with Winemaker Karen Steinwachs and soil guru Stan Kadota. We'll stop and taste various varietals, check out the progress of 2012 bud break, chat about soils, cane pruning and why we farm the way we do. Wear comfy walking shoes! (mildly exerting). RSVP please.

Clos Pepe

11am - 2pm

Winery Open House & Barrel Tasting

Wes Hagen and the Clos Pepe crew will be pouring current releases and library selections at the Lompoc winery: 1273 West Laurel, Lompoc. Wes will conduct two barrel tastings of the 2011 Vintage: one at noon, and one at 1:30. Cheese, bread and water provided.

Costa de Oro

1 - 4pm

Open House

Live music & appetizers.

Fiddlehead Cellars

11am - 4pm

Tasting with Kathy in the Cellar

To continue the celebrations of Vintners' Festival weekend, come join us at our Winery & Tasting Room in the Lompoc 'Wine Ghetto'! We will have skewers on the grill, lively tunes by the Mark Roberts Band, Kathy and Rob behind the bar, and stories of travels near and far! We will even treat you to a taste of our new release 'Goosebury' Sauvignon Blanc. Our wines are tasting better than ever! Get in the groove, come hear the tunes, and come for the Fiddlehead spirit you can't get anywhere else!

Flying Goat Cellars

11am - 4pm

 

Open House

Join winemaker Norm Yost at his tasting room to experience some of his library wines and barrel samples to top off your Vintners Festival weekend.

Fontes & Philips

noon - 4pm

 

Sunday Funday

Come join us at Fontes and Phillips Tasting Room for light appetizers, live music, and great wine!

Foxen

11am - 4pm

Open House at FOXEN and foxen 7200 “the shack”

Please stop by our tasting rooms for our current line up, special library wines for sale and light hors d' oeuvres.

Ken Brown Wines

11am - 4pm

Open House

Special tastings of our small-lot, vineyard-designated wines and select older vintages from our library plus new releases from the amazing 2010 vintage.

Kenneth Volk

10.30am - 4.30pm

Open House

Enjoy cheeses and appetizers along with your wine tasting. Designated drivers at no charge. Wine specials & pre-release tastings.

Longoria

11am - 4.30pm

Open House

Taste current vintages while enjoying live music in our tasting room garden. Meet Owner/Winemaker Rick Longoria as he pours Library Wines he has chosen in celebration of 30 years of Longoria Wines: 1982 - 2012!
At the Los Olivos Tasting Room

Margerum

Open House

Join us at our downtown Santa Barbara tasting room as we celebrate the release of our 2011 white wines. The Let's Be Frank hot dog cart will be here serving up grass fed beef franks on homemade hotdog buns topped with your choice of all the fixings.

Melville

10am - 4pm

Open House Weekend

Come and join Melville as we host a open house filled with new release wines and light hors d'oeuvres throughout the weekend, prepared by our in-house baker Lynn Sigafoos.

Oreana

2 - 5pm

Live music on the patio

Come and enjoy an afternoon on the Urban Wine Trail in downtown Santa Barbara. Enjoy a tasting or a glass of wine on our patio while listening to live music

Point Concepción

10am - 5pm

Spring Open House

Please join us at our winery for our Spring Open House. In addition to all of our current releases of Cargasacchi and Point Concepción wines, we will be offering a few special treats from our library, as well as the first chance to taste our 2009 Cargasacchi Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir from the Cargasacchi Vineyard. We're only open to the public three times a year, so we hope to see you to help us celebrate the arrival of the new vintage!

Rideau

11.30am - 4pm

Open House

Come and enjoy our new releases, tasty hors d'oeurvres and live music. No reservations required.

Roblar

11am - 4pm

Open House

Join us in our beautiful cellar at Roblar Winery and Vineyards. Listen to music and enjoy a special tasting paired with complimentary hors d’oeuvres.

Royal Oaks

11am - 4pm

Open House

Join us for an Open House at our tasting room in the heart of Solvang. Enjoy semi-sweet wine tasting and complimentary hors d’oeuvres. We’ll be featuring our ever-so-popular Blueberry Royale!

Sierra Madre

11am - 4pm

Open House

Join us at our historic vineyard and meet our new winemaker Lane Tanner. Check out our new vineyard room, taste the full line-up of Sierra Madre wines (including bubbles), and enjoy some tasty treats. 2570 Prell Road, Santa Maria.

Silver

11am - 4pm

Open House

Visit us at the winery & taste with the Owner/Winemaker. Your tastebuds will explore Santa Ynez Valley, Los Alamos Valley & Santa Maria Valley vineyards, through uber low alcohol 2009 Whites & 2008 Reds. Your tastebuds will thank you, I will personally thank you, & the people you share the wine with (if you share the wine) will thank you!

Stolpman

from 11am

Library Wine Tasting

Formal sit down tasting of Stolpman's older vintage wines in our new Barrel Tasting Room in the Lompoc Wine Ghetto. Call for reservations.

Tantara

noon - 4pm

Open House

Be the first to taste our 2010 wines. Enjoy delicious food, live music and the delightful company of bon vivants. At the winery.

 

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