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2025 Santa Barbara County Women Winemakers & Culinarians Celebration Features Four Charitable Food and Wine Events Surrounding March 8th Grand Tasting

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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 […]

Santa Barbara County Women Winemakers & Culinarians Celebration Donates $20,000 in Annual Event Proceeds to the New “She Raised Her Hand” Women Veterans Initiative

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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 […]

Expanded Women Winemakers and Culinarians Celebration Deemed a Success

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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 […]

Women winemakers of SB County uncork annual wine event on March 7

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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, […]

Casa Dumetz founder discusses early ties with two local, long-standing wine traditions

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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 […]

How it all began (more about us!)

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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 […]

Santa Barbara County Women Winemakers Celebration Donates $15,000 in Annual Event Proceeds to the Rainbow House Inc

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Charitable Wine Industry Event Joins Forces with The Rainbow House Inc in Support of the New Entity’s Mission to Open the Santa Ynez Valley’s First LGBTQIA+ Community Resource Center April 3, 2023 – Santa Ynez Valley, CA – On Sunday, March 12, 2023, more than 30 women winemakers and more than one dozen female food-world counterparts gathered […]