Winery/Producer: Santa Barbara Winery; Santa Barbara, California.
Appellation: California
Location:
202 Anacapa (corner Anacapa/Yanonali)
Santa Barbara California
Tel. 805.963.3633
Grape Variety Tasted: Sauvignon Blanc.
Tasting Price: $10/glass or $17.00/bottle.
Comments: Recently some North Carolina friends were visiting us in California and wanted to do a some wine tasting in Santa Barbara. They had told us the Santa Barbara Winery Sauvignon Blanc was one of their favorite wines and would like to include that winery in our tasting plans. We said sure, so bright and early on Saturday morning we set out for Santa Barbara. We did a tasting at Au Bon Climat in the morning, had a fantastic lunch at Bibi Ji then poked in and out of the shops on State Street while gradually working our way toward the “Funk Zone” located near the ocean and our Santa Barbara Winery destination.
As a side note about this vineyard operation, in January we purchased a bottle of Santa Barbara Winery Chardonnay at our local grocery store and when paired with a fish dinner we enjoyed it very much. We have also done a wine tasting at the Lafond Winery & Vineyards (the parent company of the Santa Barbara Winery) located in Buellton, California and thought it was a great wine tasting experience.
Recommendation from the tasting: We’ve had several “not bad” wine tastings in the past, but our Santa Barbara Winery tasting room experience can only be described as VERY DISAPPOINTING. Maybe crowds like this only happen on Saturday afternoon or maybe our opinion was swayed because we had such a GREAT tasting at Au Bon Climat that morning, but in the end this was not an experience we would recommend.