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Santa Barbara Wine Tour - Self-Guided GPS Audio Tour
Buellton
Important Information
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Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
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Service animals allowed
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Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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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 anyt...
Highlights
From 4 hours to 9 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 4 hours to 9 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Email and in-app chat support
Regional stories on the six AVAs, transverse ranges and the Sideways effect
In-app map covering Solvang, Los Olivos, Santa Ynez, Foxen Canyon and Santa Maria
GPS audio narration across 56 mapped Santa Barbara wineries and 16 points of interest
Free content updates as new stories and wineries are added
Trip planner to build and reorder your own tasting day
Full offline download: every audio file saved to your phone before you leave wifi
Buy once, no expiry, unlimited replays
One purchase covers everyone in the vehicle
Wine tastings and cellar-door tasting fees (paid directly at each winery)
Food, meals and snacks
Transport, vehicle hire, fuel and phone mount
Mobile data required for the initial tour download
Winery appointments and reservations where required
Gratuities
Meeting Points
Departure
Buellton
These are self-guided wine tours, so these are just where a user can drive in from. The user can start from wherever they are at.
Return
Santa Barbara Wine Tour - Self-Guided GPS Audio Tour
Buellton
About
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 anyt...
Highlights
From 4 hours to 9 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 4 hours to 9 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Email and in-app chat support
Regional stories on the six AVAs, transverse ranges and the Sideways effect
In-app map covering Solvang, Los Olivos, Santa Ynez, Foxen Canyon and Santa Maria
GPS audio narration across 56 mapped Santa Barbara wineries and 16 points of interest
Free content updates as new stories and wineries are added
Trip planner to build and reorder your own tasting day
Full offline download: every audio file saved to your phone before you leave wifi
Buy once, no expiry, unlimited replays
One purchase covers everyone in the vehicle
Wine tastings and cellar-door tasting fees (paid directly at each winery)
Food, meals and snacks
Transport, vehicle hire, fuel and phone mount
Mobile data required for the initial tour download
Winery appointments and reservations where required
Gratuities
Meeting Points
Departure
Buellton
These are self-guided wine tours, so these are just where a user can drive in from. The user can start from wherever they are at.
Return
Itinerary
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Solvang
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.
30 minutes
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Los Olivos
A village of roughly eleven hundred people carrying more than thirty tasting rooms along Grand Avenue and Alamo Pintado.
30 minutes
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A relaxed Los Olivos storefront pouring Pinot Noir and Syrah, and one of the highest-rated rooms in the village.
30 minutes
4
Estate wines from the family's Ballard Canyon ranch, poured on Grand Avenue.
30 minutes
5
Firestone Vineyard
Leonard and Brooks Firestone bought 300 acres north of Los Olivos in 1972 and built Santa Barbara County's first estate winery.
30 minutes
6
Fess Parker Winery & Vineyard
The actor-turned-vintner planted his 714-acre Foxen Canyon ranch in 1988.
30 minutes
7
Demetria Estate Winery
One of the county's first biodynamic vineyards, with Greek heritage and 45 acres of Rhone varietals on Foxen Canyon Road.
30 minutes
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The scenic back road linking the Santa Ynez and Santa Maria valleys, running past Foxen, Fess Parker and Rancho Sisquoc.
30 minutes
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Rancho Sisquoc Winery
A working cattle ranch on an 1845 Mexican land grant, the only intact grant in California, which planted its first vines in 1968.
30 minutes
10
Beckmen Vineyards
Santa Barbara's first biodynamic estate, on Refugio Road south of Los Olivos.
30 minutes
11
The Brander Vineyard
Founded in 1975 and still known for the Sauvignon Blanc program that made its name.
30 minutes
12
A by-appointment ranch in the warm eastern AVA, where Bordeaux varieties ripen in temperatures up to twenty degrees above the Sta. Rita Hills.
30 minutes
13
Pierre Lafond opened it in 1962 as the county's first commercial winery since Prohibition.
30 minutes
14
Ostrichland USA
Operating since 1983 on Highway 246 between Buellton and Solvang, home to around a hundred ostriches and a few dozen emus.
