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 […]

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 […]

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 […]