Each map of Santa Barbara’s AVAs (American ... winegrowing areas of Santa Barbara County. The Vintners Assn. has also put out a smartphone app called “Wine Country on the Go,” available ...

Santa Barbara County has temporarily suspended regulations that prohibit or limit wineries and tasting rooms from serving food, clearing the way for such businesses to begin serving meals as soon ...

Santa Barbara County is the top wine country in the world. So declared Wine Enthusiast this morning by announcing Santa Barbara County as the winner of the magazine’s Wine Star Award for Wine Region ...

Like small companies everywhere, Santa Barbara County’s wineries employ highly individualized business models. Many rely primarily on the direct-to-consumer, or DTC, formula, in which business flows ...

The 2004 movie “Sideways” cemented Santa Barbara County’s reputation as a serious wine-growing region while hastening the decline of merlot, thanks to the main character’s aversion to the red grape ...