Santa Barbara, about 90 miles north of Los Angeles is like the most beautiful city on the coast of California. One of the many attractions of this picturesque city has to offer on the beach is excellent wineries nearby Santa Ynez Valley, the southern tip of Central Coast wine region.
This is what the internationally acclaimed wine critic Robert Parker on the future of the region of Central Coast wine provided for in general, andSanta Barbara, in particular, a 2004 Food & Wine Article:
Find California Central Coast wines (an enormous region, the adoption of Contra Costa and Santa Barbara) is running in his place beside the sacred bottlings of Napa and Sonoma. No wine region in America has shown great progress in terms of quality and potential for greatness as the Central Coast with its variety of the Rhone region of Santa Barbara, where Chardonnay and BurgundyPinot Noir planted in its cooler climates.
Robert Parker's prediction has come true, Central Coast wines, especially the region of Santa Barbara, have steadily gained recognition and acclaim for consistently high quality. But not only the quality of wine that have been raised, also a dramatic increase in the number of wineries in the region. Santa Barbara County that houses more than 100 wineries in four names recognized by the State: Santa YnezValley, Sta. Rita Hills, Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara and Santa Maria Valley. The sheer number of wineries will present a mystery to visitors: Of all the many wineries, which was I wanted to visit?
To narrow things a bit ', Santa Ynez Valley is the best of the four names for wine tasting, because it has the highest concentration of wineries and closer to the city of Santa Barbara - which remains by far the most beautiful place in the area .
For manypeople, the 2004 movie Sideways put Santa Ynez Valley on the map. There is also a literal "Sideways map", available online or from local tourist information, you have done all the stops, the Miles and Jack (main characters) to their mad road trip of wine tasting and anxiety of middle-aged . But even if the positions of Sideways great theater and cinema, are not necessarily the best places to enjoy great wines.
So if you want to visitSanta Barbara to enjoy the great wines of the region has to offer, you should turn for consultation, where the best wine libations? The best person would naturally be a local authority. Fortunately for the reader, I happen to know a good person to learn. As it happens, my father - for some years president of the Santa Barbara Wine Society - has been sampling in the regions of their goods for sale and visit wineries in the last 45 years whenwine industry grew from littleness to be a major player it is today. The following are his suggestions:
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