Foxen Canyon Wine Trail (Santa Maria Valley)
Shots along the Foxen Canyon Wine Trail in the Santa Maria Valley California (2/20/12). CDH. I have no copyrights for the song. Pictures are mine.
Trails to Riverbench Winery in Santa Maria, CA
This is Riverbench Winery in Santa Maria, CA on Foxen Canyon Rd. in the Santa Barbara area. riverbench.com
Visit trailstowine.com for a list wineries across the United States.
Rancho Sisquac Winery in Santa Maria, California
Rancho Sisquac is one the first wineries in Santa Barbara County. Located on a ranch of over 300 acres, Rancho Sisquac is a short detour of the old Foxen Canyon Wine Trail. Bring your own picnic or purchase gourmet snacks and enjoy their picturesque grounds while sampling one of their award winning Cabernet's.
Rancho Sisquac's tasting room is open Monday through Thursday, 10am-4pm and Friday through Sunday, 10am - 5pm. For $10, they will pour you your choice of 6 wines and the glass is your to take home.
Santa Maria Valley Foxen Vineyard - Drone Video
Awesome place to visit. Great wine and nice people.
My first Litchi mission and video edit. Taken with my Phantom 3 Standard.
Music: Depeche Mode - Slowblow
Foxen Winery and Vineyard: An interview with co-founder Dick Doré (Sideways 10th anniversary)
I recently headed up to the Santa Maria area to visit on my favorite vineyards and wineries: Foxen. Founders Dick Doré and Bill Wathen started making sustainable wine together at Foxen in 1985. Visit their tasting rooms daily from 11am to 4pm and taste some our their fantastic varietals. Here's my interview and tasting tour with Dick for the 10th anniversary of the movie Sideways.
Trails to Kenneth Volk Vineyards in Santa Maria, CA
This is the winery in Santa Maria, CA, called Kenneth Volk. Here you can taste wines known in the Santa Barbara area like Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. With grapes grown in the Paso Robles area, wines are made on the Santa Maria property to create great Cabs and Merlot.
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2012 Riverbench Vineyard & Winery Mesa Pinot Noir Rich & Beautiful Santa Maria, California Red Wine
Riverbench Vineyard & Winery
2012 Mesa Pinot Noir
$48.00
California – Santa Maria Valley
Top 15 Things To Do In Santa Maria, California
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Here are top 15 things to do in Santa Maria, California
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1. Waller County Park -
2. Mission La Purisima Historical Park -
3. Hi-Way Drive-In Theatre -
4. Santa Maria Inn -
5. Santa Maria Raceway -
6. Boomers! Funpark -
7. Rancho Guadalupe Dunes Preserve -
8. Avila Beach Pier -
9. Santa Maria Museum of Flight -
10. Rancho Sisquoc Winery -
11. Paul Nelson Aquatic Center -
12. Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum -
13. Santa Maria Museum and Historical Society -
14. Foxen Vineyard -
15. Coldstone Creamery-
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Foxen Winemaker Dinner at Los Olivos Wine Merchant & Cafe
Anchors Aweigh! This five course dinner was impeccably paired with the wines of one of Santa Barbara County's founding vineyard, Foxen.
Travel with Me ✈ Wine Tasting in Los Olivos & Eats in Santa Barbara, CA ✈ spelled with an E
Went wine tasting with my momma in Los Olivos, about one hour north from Santa Barbara. Took about a 3-4 hour drive from LA. Worth it. View. Amazeballs. 7 different wines. Tip$y.
Met up with my sister in Santa Barbara, spent the night and grubbed on some Mexican food mmMmMmmm
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Introducing Presqu'ile Winery
Our first video introducing the world to Presqu'ile Winery in Santa Maria California.
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History Of Pioneer Families Santa Maria Part 3
Pioneer Families of Santa Maria California
Real People Talk About Their Lifes in Santa Maria
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How to Find Great Wine Tasting in Santa Ynez
Presqu'ile Winery Los Olivos / Santa Maria Valley
Presqu'ile owner Matt Murphy and winemaker Dieter Cronje share about the Presqu'ile story and their amazing new tasting room opening.
Santa Barbara Wine Tours
Eric from SantaBarbaraWineTours.org talks about the Santa Barbara Wine Country, what kind of wines are made there and a couple of his favorite wineries that the wine tourist can visit to imbibe some truly delicious California wine.
Santa Barbara is a perfect place for wine tasting tours for a bunch of reasons. For one thing, it boasts a host of wineries, vineyards and tasting rooms serving up top quality wines made from in a diversity of styles from an array of grape varieties.
As for geographical diversity, you can choose from four AVAs, or designated wine appellations, for your Santa Barbara wine tours: Santa Ynez Valley, Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara, Sta. Rita Hills and Santa Maria Valley, in the beautiful Santa Ynez Mountains of Santa Barbara County. These AVAs are home to over 100 wineries, many of which produce world-class wines. In fact, two wines produced in Santa Barbara County were included in Wine Spectator's top 100 wines of 2010: Tensley's Syrah Santa Barbara County, Colson Canyon Vineyard 2008, at no. 17; and Zaca Mesa's Syrah, Santa Ynez Valley 2006, at no. 29.
Just to clarify, that's no. 17 and no. 29, not just in California or America, but in the world (California in general did very well this year with fourteen of the top twenty, and four of the top five wines being from the Golden State). As this result makes clear, some of the world's best Syrah is made in the Santa Barbara Wine Country, one more reason that Santa Barbara wine tours are well worth your while. The region is also renowned for its other Rhone varietals including Grenache, Viognier, Roussanne, Marsanne and Mourvedre.
Two other varietals that Santa Barbara wineries excel in are Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. These cool climate, Burgundian varietals do especially well in the Sta. Rita Hills and Santa Maria Valley appellations, both excellent locations for Santa Barbara wine tours. The east-west orientation of the mountains surrounding these AVAs allow cooling fogs to roll in from the Pacific Ocean during the morning, and later in the day, on-shore breezes keep things cool. This maritime influence combined with the area's terrain -- which is located on the oceanic Pacific Plate rather than the continental North American Plate -- and soils favored by the Burgundian varietals, have allowed the wine makers of these two appellations to achieve stunning successes with both Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
Their Pinot Noirs have received more than their fair share of accolades. In fact, some Santa Barbara wine tours are focused solely on visiting wineries that excel in producing stunning wines from this popular grape variety, and speaking of California Pinot Noir in general, 2007 was a fabulous year for this famously difficult to grow and vinify fruit; the best year ever, in fact, according to California Wine author James Laube, who writes in the September 2009 issue of Wine Spectator that, The breadth and depth of quality in 2007 California Pinot Noir is unparalleled...2007, offering the greatest assortment of outstanding wines in the 25 years I've been tasting and writing about Golden State Pinot. A number of Sta. Rita Hills wines are featured among his picks for the top Pinots of 2007.
Santa Barbara wine tours have much to offer. First and foremost, an incredible number and variety of fantastic wineries and vineyards to visit including: the beautiful Curtis Winery, the environmentally conscious Sunstone Vinyards and Winery, the unassuming Kalrya Winery, the stately Bridlewood Estate Winery, the quaint Brander Vineyard, the elegant Gainey Vineyard, the cozy Buttonwood Farms Winery, the bucolic Beckman Vineyards, the rustic Foxen Winery, the colorful Blackjack Ranch Vineyards and Winery, and the grand Fess Parker Winery. Besides the wineries, Santa Barbara wine tours let you enjoy golden Southern California sunshine, sweeping, bucolic vistas, fine restaurants and friendly people when you embark on your own Santa Barbara wine tour.
One of the best ways to do that is by limousine. Click on the link for info on renting your own Santa Barbara wine tours limo.
Franciscan Estate Napa Valley Magnificat Red Wine - 2008 - 92 Points - James Melendez
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SY Valley Wine Tours - Santa Barbara Navy hosts USS Reagan
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) Santa Barbara Welcome Weekend 2008
Hosted by Santa Barbara Navy League SBNL.org
One of many events this weekend:
Sunday, January 13, 2008
9:15 am -- 1:30 pm and 1:30 am -- 5:45 pm
Two Crew Wine Country Tours (50 people per tour)
Visit Gainey Winery, Brander Winery & the Firestone Brewery
(includes lunch). Bus will leave from Sea Landing.
Cost: $5.00 per person
2016 Castello di Amarosa Morning Dew Ranch Pinot Noir Calistoga, California
2016 Castello di Amarosa
Morning Dew Ranch Pinot Noir
Calistoga, California
2017 Margins Mourvedre Santa Clara Valley California Red Wine
2017 Margins
Mourvedre
Santa Clara Valley, California