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Santa Barbara Vacation Rentals Helps You Wine Like a Local
By Santa Barbara Local | April 28, 2010
For wine lovers around the world, Santa Barbara is a major wine trip destination. The area’s varied geography, with misty mountains, deep valleys, oceanside hills and sun-baked flats, creates many microclimates that make Santa Barbara ideal for growing almost every grape varietal. Now Santa Barbara Vacation Rentals will show you how to sample some of the best award-wining wines Santa Barbara has to offer.
First, like creating a great wine, a wonderful Santa Barbara wine trip shouldn’t be rushed. Start with a Santa Barbara vacation rental home as your base of operation so you can enjoy Santa Barbara’s wine country over several days. You want to savor both Santa Barbara and its wines.
Santa Barbara Vacation Rentals’ Perfect Santa Barbara Wine Trip Tip #1: Santa Barbara Urban Wine Trail
If you want the perfect way to enjoy both Santa Barbara and it’s wines, your first trip should be the Santa Barbara Urban Wine Trail. This walking tour of 11 Santa Barbara wineries’ downtown tasting rooms is the perfect way to allow everyone in your party to enjoy wine tasting without having to assign a designated driver. When you make your reservation, remember that the Anacapa Penthouses and Villas are located downtown within easy walking distance of the Santa Barbara Urban Wine Trail. Contact our Santa Barbara Vacation Rentals concierge to help plan the best wine trip walking tour for you.
In addition to being steps away from your Santa Barbara vacation rental, the best part of the Santa Barbara Urban Wine Trail is the ability to also enjoy Santa Barbara’s beaches, shopping, dining and galleries at a leisurely pace. If you get too tired along the Santa Barbara Urban Wine trail, you can just mosey on back to your Santa Barbara vacation rental home to rest.
You really need to check out the Santa Barbara Urban Wine Trail web site (www.urbanwinetrailsb.com). There you can learn about the 11 wineries that have downtown Santa Barbara tasting rooms. The site has a wine tasting/Santa Barbara glossary that will help you sound like a true wine and Santa Barbara aficionado. With the glossary, you can learn things that even Santa Barbara natives don’t know, like the location of “the Funk Zone”. (By the way, we have Santa Barbara vacation rentals near the Funk Zone.) The Santa Barbara Urban Wine Trail web site also allows you to sign up for email updates to get the latest news from the wineries. You can even download a tasting room map of all the wineries (or just the ones you select) to your GPS-enabled phone. You will literally have the Santa Barbara Urban Wine Trail in the palm of your hand. Just be sure to include your Santa Barbara vacation rental on your GPS map so you can find your way back after you’ve sampled the wines at 11 tasting rooms.
The Anacapa Penthouses are located in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara in close proximity to the urban wine trails.
Santa Barbara Vacation Rentals’ Perfect Santa Barbara Wine Trip Tip #2: Six Santa Barbara Wine Trails
If you want to travel by car, the Santa Barbara Convention and Visitors Bureau has created six wine trails with easy driving directions that you and your designated driver can take to explore the many microclimates and stunning vistas of Santa Barbara. If you know that you want to have easy access to some of the wineries on one of these trails, we have a number of Santa Barbara vacation rental home properties along each trail. Check out these six Santa Barbara Wine Trails here: http://www.santabarbaraca.com/static/index.cfm?contentID=263.
Santa Barbara Vacation Rentals’ Perfect Santa Barbara Wine Trip Tip #3: Santa Barbara Wine Train
While we always recommend spending the night at a luxury Santa Barbara vacation rental, if you live in the Los Angeles area and are interested in a great wine-tasting day trip to Santa Barbara, you can enjoy the rare treat of the Santa Barbara Wine Train. You depart early from Los Angeles, and enjoy breakfast on the train while you learn about the America Riviera’s wine country. You arrive in Santa Barbara at 10:12 a.m. and have the option of joining a guided tour along Santa Barbara’s Urban Wine Trail or heading off on your own before leaving Santa Barbara at 4:31 p.m. These special train trips happen once a month and sell out quickly. Find details at: http://www.overlandtrail.com/ride/sb_wine_t_page.htm.
Santa Barbara Vacation Rentals’ Perfect Santa Barbara Wine Trip Tip #4: Santa Barbara Wine Reviews
If you’re paralyzed by all the possibilities Santa Barbara’s wine country has to offer, check out these reviews of the local wineries.
Most of our Santa Barbara vacation rental guests come back time and time again to enjoy each wine trail. It is a view of Santa Barbara that improves with age. Be sure to contact your Santa Barbara vacation rental concierge to help customize the perfect Santa Barbara wine experience for you.
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