Santa Barbara Wine Tour - Self-Guided GPS Audio Tour

2.0 (1 reviews) Santa Barbara, USA
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Duration4h - 9h
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TicketMobile or paper ticket accepted
LanguagesChinese, English
Private tourOnly your group will participate

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.

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

What to expect

  1. 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.
  2. Los Olivos
    30m
    A village of roughly eleven hundred people carrying more than thirty tasting rooms along Grand Avenue and Alamo Pintado.
  3. 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.
  4. Stolpman Vineyards
    30m
    Estate wines from the family's Ballard Canyon ranch, poured on Grand Avenue.
  5. 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.
  6. Fess Parker Winery & Vineyard
    30m
    The actor-turned-vintner planted his 714-acre Foxen Canyon ranch in 1988.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Beckmen Vineyards
    30m
    Santa Barbara's first biodynamic estate, on Refugio Road south of Los Olivos.
  11. The Brander Vineyard
    30m
    Founded in 1975 and still known for the Sauvignon Blanc program that made its name.
  12. 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.
  13. Santa Barbara Winery
    30m
    Pierre Lafond opened it in 1962 as the county's first commercial winery since Prohibition.
  14. 30m
    Operating since 1983 on Highway 246 between Buellton and Solvang, home to around a hundred ostriches and a few dozen emus.

Meeting and pickup

Meeting point
Buellton
Buellton, United States
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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.

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Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, United States
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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.

Meeting point
Los Olivos
Los Olivos, United States
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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.

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Solvang
Solvang, United States
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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.

End point
Buellton
Buellton, United States
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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.

End point
Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, United States
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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.

End point
Los Olivos
Los Olivos, United States
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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.

End point
Solvang
Solvang, United States
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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.

Additional information

  • 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)
  • Msg & data rates may apply. Msg frequency: max 2 texts per booking. Reply STOP to opt out, HELP for help
  • Before you travel: download the free Wine Trails app (iOS or Android) and create your account while you are on wifi
  • Unlock your region in the app: tap Redeem a booking or code, choose Booked online, then enter your Viator booking reference (starts with BR-) and the last name on the booking
  • Download your tour over wifi before you drive: coverage in wine country is patchy and the offline download keeps the narration playing
  • One booking unlocks Santa Barbara wine country on your account for good: unlimited routes and tours, no expiry, no subscription

Cancellation policy

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

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