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
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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
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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. |
