November 18, 2019

Located in the beautiful Los Olivos District AVA of the Santa Ynez Valley, Lyons Vineyard is a 10-acre vineyard focusing on Rhône varietals including Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre, and Viognier. The original vineyard was planted in 2009 with one acre of...

Carr Winery Featured in 360 Magazine

October 16, 2019

Carr Winery has been featured in the Los Angeles-based publication, 360 Magazine. Check out an excerpt from the article below, or read the full story by Vaughn Lowery. Photos courtesy of Vaughn Lowery "Since 1999, Owner/Winemaker/Sommelier Ryan Carr and wife...

Equal Parts Story and Substance

September 20, 2019

This article was written by our marketing coordinator and tasting room associate, Brenna Ritchey, for Antonio Galloni's Vinous. "I read an article the other day that told me, in no uncertain terms, I was doing wine wrong. It claimed that young...

September 9, 2019

"Ryan Carr was part of the original team that moved into the Funk Zone in 2005 to start Cellar 205, a cooperative space that opened the mostly forgotten waterfront neighborhood up to its ongoing tasting room boom. But a...

September 9, 2019

Carr Winery has been featured as a don't-miss urban winery in a new article in the San Francisco Chronicle. Read the full piece here. "There is a long history of urban wine in Santa Barbara County. In 1964, Santa Barbara...

Carr Winery Celebrates 20 Years of Wine

September 4, 2019

SANTA BARBARA, CA—Carr Vineyards & Winery will celebrate its 20th anniversary this fall, commemorating the milestone with an anniversary party in the winery’s downtown Santa Barbara tasting room on September 14th from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. The anniversary marks 20...

August 24, 2019

Carr Winery has been featured on NBC L.A.! California Live went on a wine crawl through Santa Barbara's Funk Zone, learning why Santa Barbara has been nicknamed "the American Riviera."

What is a clone?

April 25, 2019

In short, a clone is a propagation of a single “parent” plant. When a bud from this plant is cut and planted, its offspring will be genetically identical to the parent plant. For a variety of reasons winegrowers use...

6 Distinct AVAs in Santa Barbara County

March 28, 2019

"The unique, transverse nature of the valleys of Santa Barbara Wine Country provides a patchwork quilt of micro-climates and terrains, resulting in one of the most diverse grape growing regions in the world. The valleys in the Pacific coastline...

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