It’s a bedrock constitutional principle: the government can’t compel a private business to fund speech it disagrees with—but ...

A benefit party for Common Ground Santa Barbara County will be held in the barrel room of Santa Barbara Winery beginning at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 28. A suggested donation of $20 includes live music, a ...

Perhaps you've heard of (or tasted) Santa Barbara's seven AVAs (American Viticultural Areas, the official designation of wine growing areas or appellations): Alisos Canyon, Santa Maria Valley and ...

Ever since I started writing about wine back at the turn of the millennium, the industry’s public messaging posture has been relentlessly positive. It took me a few years of hearing “It’s the best ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After years of cutting their teeth in tasting rooms and cellars of influential Santa Barbara County wineries, Kristin Harris Luis ...

Attorneys for Flying Goat Cellars, an independent winery based in Lompoc, have made good on their promise to sue Santa Barbara County and the Santa Barbara Vintners Association over the county’s Wine ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Santa Barbara, CA (June 3, 2025) — The California Wine Festival returns to its coastal hometown of Santa Barbara for two ...

Bien Nacido, Kimsey, Larner, Peak, Moulds. Exquisite wines from five of the most storied vineyards in Santa Barbara are front and center at Dalita and Duncan Harmon’s Terre et Sang, a new tasting room ...

Santa Barbara County is blessed with a diversity of vital nonprofit organizations dedicated to improving the health, well-being, growth, civic leadership and compassion of our community. Charitable ...

(The Center Square) – A winery in Santa Barbara County is challenging what it calls an illegal government mandate. In February 2025, the county Board of Supervisors approved the creation of a Wine ...

The laid-back wine region is more attractive than ever as its first luxury resort, Auberge’s The Inn at Mattei’s Tavern, opens and local restaurants earn Michelin guide distinctions. By Elycia Rubin ...