Some of the sparkling wine in Santa Barbara County is exclusively for winery members, or can be purchased only online at the winery’s website shop. Even though you can’t buy Bubbles at these wineries, you can contact them and ask for a tasting or appointment to pick up these bubbles. Sometimes, this is an even better treat! And some of these wines are the best in the area.
See more! There are over 75 sparkling wine producers in Santa Barbara County.
Online Only 1. Allan Hancock College Winery
Allan Hancock Community College in Santa Maria operates one of the few bonded wineries on a California college campus. The wines are made by students and can be purchased online or while visiting the tasting room that’s open on Fridays. Allan Hancock College Winery offers bubbly wine drinkers their Blanc de Noir, made in the traditional method like Champagne.
Méthode Champenoise is how sparkling wine is made in the Champagne region of France, also called méthode traditionnelle or classique. This is the highest-quality and most labor-intensive way to make sparkling wine. It involves bottling the still wine with additions of sugar and yeast after a first fermentation, ensuring a second fermentation happens in the bottle, trapping the bubbles inside. It then goes through aging (and periodic turning of the bottles to force the lees to the neck of the bottle), until it’s ready for dégorgement (to get these lees out) and dosage (to finish the wine).
2. Disko
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This Article was originally published on Cali Coast Wine Country
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