CrossHatch Website

Tasting Room Open: Thursday- Monday  12pm - 7pm /Closed Tuesday & Wednesday 
436 Alisal Road, Solvang, CA 93463
(in the windmill)
805-691-9192

Winemaker: Ryan Carr
Case Production: 650 cases

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All of the wines produced by CrossHatch Winery are co-fermented blends sourced from Santa Barbara County vineyards. CrossHatch is a project created in 2011 by winemaker Ryan Carr that focuses on co-fermented blends from Santa Barbara County vineyards. After making only single varietal wines for eleven years, winemaker Ryan Carr wanted to try something different. He and his wife Jessica came up with the idea for CrossHatch, inspired by the classic form of art. Cross hatching is an artistic technique that uses closely spaced intersecting lines to create shading, definition, and form in a drawing.

Carr took this technique and adapted it into the winemaking process by harvesting multiple varietals on the same day then crushing and fermenting them together. The idea of co-fermented wine is nothing new. Some of the best and oldest wines in the world are made this way, but with the microclimates of Santa Barbara it really adds another layer to the process. Co-fermentation brings out and creates flavors in the wine that would not have existed otherwise. This makes the CrossHatch wine truly one of a kind.

The labels were inspired by the antique winemaking equipment Ryan and his dad have collected over the years. Local Santa Barbara artist, Thomas Van Stein, used the crosshatch technique to draw the images of the crusher, corkscrew, basket press and tractor used on the labels. Each image captures the spirit of the wine in the bottle.

Join us at our tasting room in the historic and quaint town of Solvang.  Enjoy a glass of wine or tasting in the heart of California wine country inside a classic danish style windmill.  We look forward to sharing our wines with you.


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