Now Officially a Nonprofit, the Women Winemakers and Culinarians Foundation Goes All Out for Good Causes This past weekend, Santa Barbara County raised a glass to the talented women shaping the local wine and culinary scene with the return of the Women Winemakers & Culinarians Celebration. Taking place from March 6-9, this four-day event honored […]
BY GABE SAGLIE | MARCH 4, 2025 “Santa Barbara has always been more of a maverick type of region,” winemaker Karen Steinwachs tells me. “And that certainly has helped female talent to flourish.” Steinwachs and I are discussing the remarkable number of women winemakers in the area, a cohort which has grown solidly over the decades. […]
New Nonprofit, Women Winemakers and Culinarians Foundation, Announces Two New Beneficiaries of Proceeds from 2025 Lineup of Women-Led Wine and Food Fundraising Events in Honor of International Women’s Day January 29, 2025 – Santa Ynez, CA – Spanning four days in March 2025 – March 6-9 – the now-annual Santa Barbara County Women Winemakers and Culinarians Celebration (www.SBWomenWinemakers.com) returns with a […]
Charitable Wine Industry Event Helps to Kickstart Efforts for the New Organization’s Mission to Provide Opportunities for Women to Find Community, Purpose and Strength in their Identity as Veterans May 1, 2024 – Santa Ynez, CA – Wednesday through Sunday, March 6 through 10, 2024, more than 30 women winemakers and nearly twenty female food-world counterparts gathered for good […]
The seventh annual Women Winemakers and Culinarians Celebration, which morphed this year from one day to several events running from March 6-10, was by most accounts a rousing success. Seagrape Cellars winemaker Karen Steinwachs, co-founder with Brooke Stockwell, executive chef at the Los Olivos Wine Merchant & Café, did not have final figures earlier this week, although she […]
Annual Food and Wine Fundraiser Expands to Three Days of Festivities, with New Events at Fess Parker Winery and The Inn at Mattei’s Tavern “Culinarians” is a brand-new word to me, as it is to Karen Steinwachs, one of the founding organizers of the annual Santa Barbara County women winemakers fundraising event that has renamed […]
More than 30 Santa Barbara County women winemakers and food crafters are set to gather once again for the groups’ annual International Women’s Day fundraising event, rebranded as the ‘Women Winemakers and Culinarians Celebration.’ The county’s female winemakers turn out each year in a show of support for each other and other working women throughout the world, […]
For up-and-coming winemakers and small-production vintners without a brick-and-mortar to call home, the Garagiste Wine Festival provides a temporary setting to hold tastings and interact with patrons face-to-face. The Solvang-based iteration of the two-day event, scheduled for Feb. 9 and 10, is set to be a homecoming of sorts for Casa Dumetz Wines founder Sonja Magdevski, whose own winemaking […]
We inherently knew that Santa Barbara County featured a higher percentage of women winemakers than any other region. It just “was”, likely because our little corner of wine paradise was somewhat unconventional and on the maverick side of the industry. But it wasn’t touted and that “card” wasn’t really played. All worked hard, along with […]
