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An overview of Mission Santa Barbara, an educational wine, food and cultural immersion into Santa Barbara County put on by the Santa Barbara Vintners. Featuring the great wines, winemakers and vineyards of Santa Barbara.

Sanford & Benedict is considered a crown jewel vineyard, its excellence encouraging a young Santa Barbara wine region that it could produce Pinot Noir & Chardonnay grapes that would be the envy of the world of wine.

Inside the Santa Ynez Valley is a variety of climates, grapes and quality to be found. This diversity is what influences local winemaker and industry leader Wes Hagen to describe the Santa Ynez Valley as, “…the Loire Valley of California.”

The promise and potential of this grape though is too good to be left studying in books over being poured into wine glasses. To uncover the mystery of Meunier I sought out a variety of full expressions and the small producers who have never forgotten their affection and continue to bottle love letters...