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By Wine Trails
Free cancellation available
Price is $25 per traveler* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travelers

Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 9h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation

Overview

  • 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.

Activity location

  • Solvang
    • Solvang, California, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Los Olivos
    • Los Olivos, California, United States

Multiple meeting/redemption points available, see location information for full list

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Santa Barbara Wine Tour - Self-Guided GPS Audio Tour

  • Activity duration is 9 hours9h
    9h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 9:00AM
Price details
$24.99 x 1 Traveler$24.99
Total
Price is $24.99

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Email and in-app chat support
  • Inclusions
    Regional stories on the six AVAs, transverse ranges and the Sideways effect
  • Inclusions
    In-app map covering Solvang, Los Olivos, Santa Ynez, Foxen Canyon and Santa Maria
  • Inclusions
    GPS audio narration across 56 mapped Santa Barbara wineries and 16 points of interest
  • Inclusions
    Free content updates as new stories and wineries are added
  • Inclusions
    Trip planner to build and reorder your own tasting day
  • Inclusions
    Full offline download: every audio file saved to your phone before you leave wifi
  • Inclusions
    Buy once, no expiry, unlimited replays
  • Inclusions
    One purchase covers everyone in the vehicle
  • Exclusions
    Wine tastings and cellar-door tasting fees (paid directly at each winery)
  • Exclusions
    Food, meals and snacks
  • Exclusions
    Transport, vehicle hire, fuel and phone mount
  • Exclusions
    Mobile data required for the initial tour download
  • Exclusions
    Winery appointments and reservations where required
  • Exclusions
    Gratuities

Know before you book

    • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
    • Service animals allowed
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Solvang

  • 30m
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.

Los Olivos

  • 30m
A village of roughly eleven hundred people carrying more than thirty tasting rooms along Grand Avenue and Alamo Pintado.

Dragonette Cellars - Tasting Room

  • 30m
A relaxed Los Olivos storefront pouring Pinot Noir and Syrah, and one of the highest-rated rooms in the village.

Stolpman Vineyards

  • 30m
Estate wines from the family's Ballard Canyon ranch, poured on Grand Avenue.

Firestone Vineyard

  • 30m
Leonard and Brooks Firestone bought 300 acres north of Los Olivos in 1972 and built Santa Barbara County's first estate winery.

Fess Parker Winery & Vineyard

  • 30m
The actor-turned-vintner planted his 714-acre Foxen Canyon ranch in 1988.

Demetria Estate Winery

  • 30m
One of the county's first biodynamic vineyards, with Greek heritage and 45 acres of Rhone varietals on Foxen Canyon Road.

Foxen Canyon Wine Trail

  • 30m
The scenic back road linking the Santa Ynez and Santa Maria valleys, running past Foxen, Fess Parker and Rancho Sisquoc.

Rancho Sisquoc Winery

  • 30m
A working cattle ranch on an 1845 Mexican land grant, the only intact grant in California, which planted its first vines in 1968.

Beckmen Vineyards

  • 30m
Santa Barbara's first biodynamic estate, on Refugio Road south of Los Olivos.

The Brander Vineyard

  • 30m
Founded in 1975 and still known for the Sauvignon Blanc program that made its name.

Happy Canyon Vineyard

  • 30m
A by-appointment ranch in the warm eastern AVA, where Bordeaux varieties ripen in temperatures up to twenty degrees above the Sta. Rita Hills.

Santa Barbara Winery

  • 30m
Pierre Lafond opened it in 1962 as the county's first commercial winery since Prohibition.

Ostrichland USA

  • 30m
Operating since 1983 on Highway 246 between Buellton and Solvang, home to around a hundred ostriches and a few dozen emus.

Location

Activity location

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    Solvang
    • Solvang, California, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Los Olivos
    • Los Olivos, California, United States
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    Buellton
    • Buellton, California, United States
  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Santa Barbara
    • Santa Barbara, California, United States
  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Solvang
    • Solvang, California, United States

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