Santa Ynez Valley

What’s better than warm homemade cookies?!? The perfect cookie and wine pairing. Chocolate espresso cookies and wine pairing to be exact.

Explore Santa Ynez Valley through food and wine pairings! The Hitching Post has shared its Oak-Grilled Steak with Mushrooms,Onions and Pinot Noir Sauce recipe to start your culinary journey.

If you can’t travel to the Santa Ynez Valley wine country, you can still explore through food and wine pairings. The Gathering Table has shared its Grilled Rib Eye Steaks with Chimichurri Sauce to help you explore through your palate.

Bob’s Well Bread in the Santa Ynez Valley wine country is Carpe Travel’s featured restaurant, food and wine pairing. Bob himself, shares the recipe for his popular – and delicious – Meat Loaf Sandwich on Pain de Mie.

With 120+ wineries, wine tasting is one of the top things to do in the Santa Ynez Valley, but you will miss out on a lot if you don’t go beyond the vines.

There are tons of things to do in Santa Barbara besides sipping wines from its award-winning wine country, assuming you want to get beyond the vines.

The Santa Ynez Valley is home to six distinct towns, each each is worth sipping in on your next wine country vacation.

Getting around the Santa Ynez Valley wine country requires driving. See our guide to determine which wine country transportation option is for you?

The editor at Carpe Travel uncorks the top places to stay during your next Santa Ynez Valley wine vacation.

There are 100+ Santa Ynez Valley wineries – you’re bound to sip well no matter where you go. But, to help we’ve pulled the top must sip wineries.

During our travels through the Santa Ynez Valley wine country we noshed at many restaurants. Our top picks for the perfect pairing.

The movie, Sideways, may have put the Santa Ynez Valley wine country on the map. But the regions terroir has its own sideways effect.

Visiting the Santa Ynez Valley? Carpe Travel has put together a few wine tasting itineraries to pair with your next wine country getaway.

The Santa Barbara Funk Zone has become a favorite – for good reason! See our guide and itinerary on where to sip, savor and stay to get your funk on!

With 50 hotels and B&B’s in the Santa Ynez Valley, finding a place to stay in wine country is easy to uncork. However, not all hotels and B&B’s are created equally. During our visit to the Santa Ynez Valley to sip our way through wine country, we spent a few nights at the Ballard Inn …

We put Uber Wine to the test when wine tasting in Santa Barbara County. Click over to get the good, the bad, and the reality of wine tasting with Uber Wine.