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Bottles & Barrels By Indy Staff | Wed Dec 14, 2011 | 6:00am

Gifts Your Wino Will Love

Being surrounded by wine country, most of us in Santa Barbara know someone who only wants wine and wine paraphernalia for Christmas.

Bottles & Barrels By Matt Kettmann | Fri Dec 09, 2011 | 6:00am

Bringing back tradition, Doug Margerum brings the best champagne you’ve never heard of to the Wine Cask on Sunday.

Bottles & Barrels By Devon Claire Flannery | Fri Dec 02, 2011 | 6:00am

More than 100 award-winning California wines on the menu at this weekend’s 2011 Winter Wine Classic.

Bottles & Barrels By Kamilla Plambeck | Wed Nov 30, 2011 | 6:00am

Winemaker Norm Yost chats pinot and more before this weekend’s open house in Lompoc Wine Ghetto.

Bottles & Barrels By Matt Kettmann | Tue Nov 29, 2011 | 6:00am

The latest Indy office tasting samples award-winning merlots, syrahs, and zinfandels.

Bottles & Barrels By Matt Kettmann | Fri Nov 25, 2011 | 6:00am

Wines made from Santa Barbara County grapes by Margerum, Rusack, and Sans Liege awarded in Wine Spectator‘s annual roundup.

Bottles & Barrels By Kamilla Plambeck | Fri Nov 11, 2011 | 12:00am

Sam Marmorstein explains why his Los Olivos Wine Merchant & Café was recently honored for its wine list.

Bottles & Barrels By Matt Kettmann | Thu Nov 10, 2011 | 12:00am

On November 12, a group of proudly small-time winemakers will share their hard-to-find stuff in Paso Robles.

Bottles & Barrels By Matt Kettmann | Thu Nov 10, 2011 | 12:00am

Here are three bottles recently corked and enjoyed from The Santa Barbara Independent‘s wine cave.

Bottles & Barrels By Matt Kettmann | Wed Nov 09, 2011 | 6:00am

Bryan Hope, owner of Sustainable Vine Wine Tours, made a chardonnay to honor his mother, who died of MS last year.