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 […]
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 […]
The sixth annual “Women Winemakers Celebration: A Toast to Women in Wine and Food” will showcase 30 of Santa Barbara County’s female winemakers, and more than a dozen chefs, bakers and other food crafters. Tickets for the event sold out Feb. 22, according to Anna Ferguson-Sparks, a publicist for the event with its co-founder, winemaker […]
Behind every great man is a great woman. And behind every great woman winemaker, is a great female culinary crafter. On International Women’s Day, Sunday, March 8, nearly 200 women and men will gather to toast Santa Barbara County’s women winemakers, and the lady chefs, bakers and other food creators who make the annual Women Winemakers Celebration a […]
It is not uncommon for Jessica Gasca to pour a glass of the wine she makes at an event and hear the question, “Who is the winemaker?” “The answer is, ‘I’m the winemaker,’” she told me at the Women Winemaker’s Dinner on March 8. “And it’s interesting to see the expression change.” Gasca, winemaker and […]
