Santa Barbara Wine Tour - Self-Guided GPS Audio Tour

Drive Santa Barbara wine country yourself, with a GPS audio guide that plays automatically as you go. Your booking unlocks the whole region in the free Wine Trails app: pick your date and starting point — Solvang, Los Olivos, Buellton or downtown Santa Barbara — choose the cellar doors you want from 63 across the valleys, and the app builds your personal route with turn-by-turn narration. 86 stories cover the county's people and places: as you roll past the Santa Ynez Valley's tasting rooms you'll hear how, in 2004, a film called Sideways turned these quiet rooms into international pilgrimage sites overnight. No group, no schedule, no guide — pause for a long lunch in Los Olivos, replay anything, and the audio keeps working when the signal drops on Foxen Canyon Road. You'll need a car and a designated driver; tastings are booked and paid directly with the wineries.

1. 1

   Solvang

   30 min

   Founded in 1911 by Danish-American settlers who bought nearly nine thousand acres; the name means sunny field, and around two million people visit each year.

2. 2

   Los Olivos

   30 min

   A village of roughly eleven hundred people carrying more than thirty tasting rooms along Grand Avenue and Alamo Pintado.

3. 3

   Dragonette Cellars - Tasting Room

   30 min

   A relaxed Los Olivos storefront pouring Pinot Noir and Syrah, and one of the highest-rated rooms in the village.

4. 4

   Stolpman Vineyards

   30 min

   Estate wines from the family's Ballard Canyon ranch, poured on Grand Avenue.

5. 5

   Firestone Vineyard

   30 min

   Leonard and Brooks Firestone bought 300 acres north of Los Olivos in 1972 and built Santa Barbara County's first estate winery.

6. 6

   Fess Parker Winery & Vineyard

   30 min

   The actor-turned-vintner planted his 714-acre Foxen Canyon ranch in 1988.

7. 7

   Demetria Estate Winery

   30 min

   One of the county's first biodynamic vineyards, with Greek heritage and 45 acres of Rhone varietals on Foxen Canyon Road.

8. 8

   Foxen Canyon Wine Trail

   30 min

   The scenic back road linking the Santa Ynez and Santa Maria valleys, running past Foxen, Fess Parker and Rancho Sisquoc.

9. 9

   Rancho Sisquoc Winery

   30 min

   A working cattle ranch on an 1845 Mexican land grant, the only intact grant in California, which planted its first vines in 1968.

10. 10

    Beckmen Vineyards

    30 min

    Santa Barbara's first biodynamic estate, on Refugio Road south of Los Olivos.

11. 11

    The Brander Vineyard

    30 min

    Founded in 1975 and still known for the Sauvignon Blanc program that made its name.

12. 12

    Happy Canyon Vineyard

    30 min

    A by-appointment ranch in the warm eastern AVA, where Bordeaux varieties ripen in temperatures up to twenty degrees above the Sta. Rita Hills.

13. 13

    Santa Barbara Winery

    30 min

    Pierre Lafond opened it in 1962 as the county's first commercial winery since Prohibition.

14. 14

    Stop 14

    30 min

    Operating since 1983 on Highway 246 between Buellton and Solvang, home to around a hundred ostriches and a few dozen emus.

• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Service animals allowed
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• By giving your phone number you agree to receive up to 2 texts from Wine Trails about this booking (your tour link and a tour-day reminder)
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• Before you travel: download the free Wine Trails app (iOS or Android) and create your account while you are on wifi

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.