Passionately focused on Rhône varieties, Andrew Murray has consistently crafted highly acclaimed red wines and white wines in the Santa Ynez Valley for 20 years. His Viogniers, single-vineyard Syrahs, and blends led Robert Parker, Jr. to refer to Andrew Murray Vineyards as, "…one of the shining stars in the Santa Barbara firmament."

Andrew Murray fell in love with the emerging Rhône varieties, Syrah and Viognier, in the late 1980's while traveling through France's Rhône Valley. Leaving his UC Berkeley paleontology studies behind, he pursued his new mistress, Syrah, with an internship in Australia. His three-month tryst evolved into a 15-month romance with the famed Australian Shiraz. Returning to the states, he earned a bachelor's degree in viticulture and enology from UC Davis' renowned wine program, then founded his eponymous Santa Ynez winery and vineyard.

Celebrate the fusion of art, food and wine at Santa Barbara County's most thought provoking boutique winery and working artist studio, reminiscent of a bygone era. Artiste’s highly sought-after wines are limited productions of less than 300 cases each blend and are available exclusively through Artiste Tasting Studios in historic old Santa Ynez.

Combining a reverence for tradition and a philosophy of winemaking as an artistic expression, Artiste wines are labeled with gorgeous works of impressionist art. Each of it's wine blends are named after the title of the painting that graces its bottle.

Brander Vineyard is one of the original vineyards in Santa Ynez Valley and the producer of world-class Sauvignon Blanc wines in a variety of styles, as well as small quantities of hand-crafted Bordeaux-style red wines.

The Tasting Room at the Brander Vineyard is open for tasting and sales seven days a week and guests are welcome to enjoy the picnic grounds. There's always something happening at the Brander Vineyard - from the Bouillabaisse Festival to a new wine release celebration to a winemaker dinner at a local gourmet restaurant.

Bridlewood Estate Winery, on a hillside in the heart of Santa Barbara County wine country, is a place apart, completely dedicated to the pleasures of wine - and serious about Syrah. The Mission Style Winery, Tasting Room, and Visitor Center echo the traditions of California's past with long, cool verandas surrounding a stone courtyard graced by the sound of fountains splashing in the sun.

In the Tasting Room Bridlewood offers a broad range of carefully crafted wines that demonstrate the creative commitment of our winemaker, David Hopkins, as he follows the flavor of great grapes from vineyard to vineyard throughout the Central Coast.

A connection with the land and the Santa Ynez Valley drives the mission of Carhartt Vineyard. Mike and Brooke Carhartt produce estate-grown Merlot, Syrah, Sangiovese and Rosé. They are winegrowers who carefully craft artisanal wines from the ten-acre vineyard, which sits high on a mesa overlooking the family ranch and from the adjacent three acre Eleven Oaks Vineyard. At historic Rancho Santa Ynez, which has been in the Carhartt family for over half a century, the focus on creating an exceptional product from the family land continues today.

Carhartt Vineyards cozy tasting room in the charming town of Los Olivos combined with its exquisite wines is a perfect pairing.

Carina Cellars is the result of an avid wine collector with a dream who meets an accomplished winemaker with a vision. When attorney and businessman David Hardee and winemaker Joey Tensley met in 2002, they were quick to recognize the benefits of combining their passion. With Hardee's talent for business, Tensley's talent for wine making, and a shared belief in only the best, Carina Cellars was born.

Our goal at Carina Cellars is a simple one: to produce top-quality Santa Barbara County Rhône wines that showcase and emphasize terroir above all else. We partner with growers who share our philosophies on farming – a dedication to canopy management, low yields and vine balance. Our winemaking approach is traditional and minimalist. The resulting wines are rich in traditional varietal flavors and aromas - Viogniers full of tropical fruit and spring flowers, dark, spicy Syrahs and intense, blackcurranty Cabernet Sauvignons.

In Spring 2000, our winery's new tasting room and gift shop opened in Heather Cottage, a landmark along "Tasting Room Row" in Los Olivos California. Built in 1904, Heather Cottage features a true gift shop with French Country and English cottage-themed items for the home. You will also find numerous wine-related gifts in the tasting room alongside the latest releases.

Originally built as a doctor's office and later a residence through much of the 1900's, for the last decade, Heather Cottage has made a name for itself as a gift boutique. Now, in addition to the many unique and wonderful gift items, the Heather Cottage is home to Daniel Gehrs Wines.

John and Steve Dragonette and close friend Brandon Sparks-Gillis formed Dragonette Cellars in order to pursue a long-held dream to produce wines of the utmost quality and purity from the finest vineyards in Santa Barbara County and the Central Coast.

Every decision we make in the vineyards and cellar is aimed at producing a wine of balance and complexity. To that end, we harvest each vineyard block individually and then ferment and age the resulting wines separately. We then carefully follow each barrel (or tank) with a view towards maximizing that wine's inherent potential.

Evans Ranch Tasting Room, located in downtown Los Olivos, is pretty unique in that it has stools up at the tasting bar…which you don't see all that often. It's like hanging out at a bar. It really is a cool tasting room, plenty of room, and the staff was fantastic. Evans Ranch is closely linked up with Gainey Vineyards out of Santa Barbara County.

Founded in 1972 by father and son, Leonard and Brooks Firestone, Firestone Vineyard has enjoyed 35 years of family stewardship. Recently, so that they might concentrate on their burgeoning beer business and smaller Curtis Winery, the Firestone family decided to sell their iconic winery. In doing so, they turned to fellow Santa Barbara vintner Bill Foley (Foley Estates Vineyard and Winery, Lincourt Vineyards) as the logical next shepherd for the famous property.

Foley Estates Vineyard & Winery at Rancho Santa Rosa is the realization of vintner Bill Foley's dream to produce world class Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in Santa Barbara County. A historic parcel located in the Sta. (Santa) Rita Hills region of the Santa Ynez Valley, Rancho Santa Rosa was formerly a thoroughbred horse ranch. In 1998, the 460-acre property was purchased and planted to 230 acres of vineyard.

Devoted to Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Syrah, the vineyard has been subdivided into 59 micro-blocks with each being farmed, harvested and vinified separately.

In 1962, Dan C. and his son Dan J. Gainey purchased an 1800 acre ranch on the eastern end of the Santa Ynez Valley. With over 1000 acres of rangeland devoted to cattle, 600 acres of farmland, 100 acres of Arabian horses facilities and 100 acres of vineyards, the Gainey Ranch was and still is the largest diversified farming operation in the valley.

In the early 1980's, Dan J. and his son Dan H. became convinced that the unique geographical and climatical conditions of the area gave it the potential to produce world class wines. They planted 50 acres in 1983 and opened their Spanish style winery in 1984. The winery quickly became one of the most popular wineries to visit in the area and was named as "one of the best wineries to visit on California's Central Coast" by Wine Spectator magazine.

Realizing Santa Barbara's potential for growing world class Rhone varietals I decided to dive head first into the wine industry, joining the Beckmen Vineyards winemaking team as a harvest grunt for the 1999 harvest.

In 2001 I took over the reigns as assistant winemaker from Joey Tensley. While assistant winemaker at Beckmen I was responsible for helping take the winery to new heights in the market place through sales and marketing. In the cellar I helped change the way we looked at the vineyard and winemaking by embracing techniques used by the French masters of the Rhone. Quality was further ensured by meticulous monitoring during harvest and fine attention to detail in the cellar.

Take an Australian born winemaker, train him in California, give him over twenty years experience making wine in Santa Barbara County and in Australia... then add some of the best grapes from two continents and what do you get?

An outstanding portfolio of wines from Santa Barbara County, California and Australia. All created with pride, imagination and flair. Welcome to the world of Kalyra and M.Brown Wines... the best of two new world wine destinations.

Featured in the movie "Sideways", Kalyra's setting and unique "vibe", make it a popluar and spirited place to visit and tast wonderful wines.

Founded in 1996 by Bill Foley, Lincourt is a producer of ultra premium wines from the Santa Barbara County. Named in honor of Bill and Carol’s two daughters, Lindsay and Courtney, the Lincourt winery is located in the heart of Santa Barbara wine country, on Alamo Pintado Road in the Santa Ynez Valley.

Originally a dairy farm, the 30 acre property retains the rural charm and simplicity of an earlier era. The quaint tasting room is located in the former farmhouse, a 1926 Sears Craftsman kit home. The barns have been converted to a winery and barrel room, and equipped to allow for handcrafted, premium winemaking.

Pacific Ridge Vineyards is a boutique California winery, producing around 1500 cases each year of mainly Santa Barbara County appellation wines. We produce many of our wines from fruit grown just north of Santa Barbara, including Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Syrah. Pacific Ridge Vineyard, on our family estate, consists of 4 acres of Syrah. All wines are aged in 100% French oak barrels, from various coopers, forests, with varying toasting levels. The Pacific Ridge winemaking operation has been based in Santa Barbara County since 1995, and the wines are available at our shared tasting room, Avant, above the winery in Buellton, CA.

Nestled in picturesque Ballard Canyon in the center of Santa Ynez Valley, amidst oak-studded rolling hills lies Rusack Vineyards, a boutique vineyard and winery dedicated to growing top-quality grapes and producing outstanding handcrafted wines.

Rusack Vineyards was established in 1995 by Geoff Rusack and Alison Wrigley Rusack with a commitment to creating world-class wines. The estate vineyards were originally planted about 30 years ago, but in early 2003 they were replanted using the latest in vineyard technologies and varietals best-suited to the relevant microclimates. As well as the estate vineyards, Rusack Vineyards continues to source classic varietal grapes from the some of the best vineyards in the area

SAARLOOS & Sons wines were never meant to be available to the public. We started with a small 17-acre farm in hills of Los Olivos, on the only south facing hill, let alone terraced, on Ballard Canyon.

Our family believes that the crops grow best in the farmers shadow, thus we farm our vineyards ourselves. This is a bit of a lost passion in the wine community these days. These wines are not crafted as a mass produced commodity that you find commonplace on a store shelf. These wines are representations of what we do 365 days a year.

A new very polished tasting room in Los Olivos offer a chance to experience and the the wonderful "story" behind each Saarloos wine.

Sevtap Winery specializes in small-lot, handcrafted wines focusing on Bordeaux varieties. Our grapes are all from California's central coast vineyards, and the wine is made in the heart of Santa Barbara County. You will currently find our wines on restaurant menus and wine bars in Santa Barbara and the Santa Ynez Valley, with the service area continuing to grow.

Good things run in my blood. As a Turkish immigrant, I know the value of hard work, determination, and the power of heart.

As the newest winery in Santa Barbara County, Scott Cellars is the culmination of over a decade of intense work and passion. Owner and Winemaker Peter Scott Fraser worked as a wine marketer and winemaker for others while carefully crafting the concept of Scott Cellars. Vineyard-designate wines and unique blends dominate the lineup. Production is very small with an eye on quality first and foremost.

At only 900 cases Scott cellars is one of the smallest wineries around. The whites, Pinot Gris and Chardonnay are crisp clean wines that pair beautifully with food. The reds are big and bold with surprisingly smooth, silky tannins.

Sort This Out Cellars is a small producer of California wines. Produced from grapes grown throughout California’s wine country, we explore varietals and appellations that are representative of California’s diversity to craft wines with quality and value. Relieving ourselves of the restrictions associated with owning vineyards or producing wines from a singular viticultural area.

We crush our own grapes from some of California’s finest vineyards. Purchased in small lots, the grapes are brought to the winemaking facility where our wines are crafted using state of the art winemaking resources under the direction of our consultant winemaker.

tercero wines produces top quality red, white, and rose wines from leading vineyards throughout Santa Barbara County. Our goal is to create wines that are distinct, interesting, good to drink, fun to share with others, and are reasonably priced.

We look at things in very simple terms – start with great grapes from great places, take care of the grapes/wines during each and every step of the process, and then bottle each wine under screw cap to ensure minimal bottle variation during its life after bottling.

Our company is small – only two of us – and therefore we cherish the relationships we have built up, and will build up, with you – our customers. We appreciate any and add feedback – let us know what you think of our wines, ask us questions about our wines, and tell others about us, too.

My first adventures in winemaking began in 2001,when a family friend and backyard grape grower offered to give me Syrah fruit from his third-leaf vines (the equivalent of your first-born child). Since the venture would cost me nothing but time, I accepted his offer. This same year I took both viticulture and enology classes at a local college, and worked more closely with my father, winemaker Daniel Gehrs, in the cellar during harvest. I only intended for this to be an experiment, or a hobby at best. I was encouraged by the success of my first vintage and by my family and friends to continue.

As I enter my 12th harvest in 2012, I feel as if this is where I belong.